Chapter VIII

Since entering middle school, Zou Shun and Xiao Peng have less contact, the two used to go to school together, listen to classes together, go home together, and play together, but now, they can only go home together on Fridays, and it is difficult for them to get together after going home. Junior high school is not like primary school, junior high school has a lot of homework, although they have just started, but the high school entrance examination is an unavoidable topic, although Zou Shun still does not understand this power, but this does not mean that teachers can not pay attention to it, so, they have just stepped into the middle school The burden is still not light, although the slogan of "burden reduction" has been shouting, but the real burden reduction seems to be far away.

Of course, Zou Shun didn't have the courage to complain about the teacher or others, if the burden was reduced, then the gap between them and the urban children would not know how big it would be, and if you wanted to really go to the other side of the mountain to see, it would be tantamount to a fool's dream. These complicated schoolwork made Zou Shun and Xiao Peng have less and less time to meet, and the communication between the two is less and less, but is this the main reason? Zou Shun himself can't convince himself, since the last time Xiao's father lost his temper with Xiao Peng, Xiao Peng has alienated Zou Shun intentionally or unintentionally for some reason, although on the surface they still seem to be the same as before, but Zou Shun, who is a person in the bureau, can feel the subtlety.

But at the same time, Zou Shun's other playmate enters his world - Feng Zongwei, and they really eat together, sleep together, learn together, and play together. For students like Feng Zongwei, who have been studying in the central school since childhood, there is no ambiguity about playing, and he soon took Zou Shun into the world of fun, skating rinks, Internet cafes, barbecue restaurants, although Zou Shun can't say that he lingers in these places, but he still occasionally haunts.

At that time, the League of Legends was not yet popular, everyone still played CF, QQ speed and other games, but unfortunately Zou Shun was a little short-sighted, and seemed to be dizzy 3D, so he could only sigh at those cool skills, over time, even Feng Zongwei lost the confidence to teach him, Zou Shun had to chat about QQ on the computer, look at the web page, but he thought he knew QQ more thoroughly, and later met a person who sold QQ number, and once spent dozens of dollars on a whim to be the person's agent, of course, This money can only be used as tuition.

Zou Shun once felt that myopia blocked too many opportunities for him, but when he thought about it later, he had to thank himself for this pair of myopic tricks.

As for barbecue restaurants and skating rinks, Zou Shun haunts less, although barbecue is cheaper, two strings of vegetarian dishes for five cents, and meat dishes for five cents a string, but in the eyes of Zou Shun, who has just entered junior high school, it is already a high consumption, and in his subconscious, those who often eat barbecue are basically social people, and they still have a natural fear of them in his heart.

The situation in the skating rink is more complicated, where there are often a lot of gangsters, hands and feet are extremely unclean, if there are newcomers to skate, they will be idle and will taunt the newcomers, and sometimes the newcomers will be knocked on their heels, if there are girls, and the girls happen to be not ugly, then their claws will not be able to hold back, of course, creatures like them, there is no aesthetics, even if the girls are not good-looking, they must pay attention there, so, for the majority of women, The best advice is to try not to go out of the rink, especially in the backwoods.

In addition to having fun, Feng Zongwei's interests are very wide, or relatively wide compared to most of the students in Guanzhong, he is good at basketball, can play badminton, table tennis, and once represented the central school to participate in the county sports meeting. And Feng Zongwei's grades are not bad, and he was also at the top of his class when he entered the school. Such a handsome, athletic and academic boy has to make many female classmates fall in love with him. At this time, students are not as depressed as their predecessors decades ago, they basically do whatever they want, and they don't care about weathering.

Zou Shun also likes to play, he has been playing badminton since he was a child, and now he is in junior high school, so he can compete with Feng Zongwei. As for table tennis, although Zou Shun has also played since he was a child, and he used to be a good player in elementary school, but in junior high school, those students' skills are much better, and Zou Shun's skills can only be abused.

As for basketball, Zou Shun has still been playing since he was a child, Zou Shun's brother used to make a simple basket at home, and a group of children bought a ball to practice at home, but after going to junior high school, a serious problem is that Zou Shun doesn't know the rules of basketball, so that the first time Feng Zongwei asked him to play, he Shun refused, it was because of this simple refusal that Zou Shun's fate with basketball was broken, and Wang Xiaoba, who was in elementary school with Zou Shun, never refused basketball. In the end, he reached the point where he could compete with Feng Zongwei and them, and in elementary school, his skills were much worse than Zou Shunke.

Things have come to this, Zou Shun had to develop his own badminton, fortunately this sport he has not refused, did not give up, although never won a prize in the competition, but found a lot of fun from it, met a lot of Taoist friends, even later gray and lonely days, badminton often accompanied him to spend, sometimes played a game, tired and exhausted, the soles of the feet wear old leather bags and new skin, but after taking a shower, suddenly refreshed, what troubles are fleeting.

Zou Shun and Feng Zongwei have a great tacit understanding, although Zou Shun was a little unhappy with him at the beginning of school, but if you stay together for a few more days, you will find that Feng Zongwei is upright and interesting, Zou Shun and he have endless topics to talk about, sometimes they can't finish chatting during the day, and they have to go to bed to chat, and they are happy to talk about their past experiences. Gradually, Zou Shun found that Feng Zongwei was actually very good in elementary school, and he basically knew all the high-flying people in the school, and they would give him some face.

Life has always liked to play tricks on people, just when Zou Shun thought that his life was going to be spent so plainly, a person broke in, if Zou Shun has a good memory, he will know that he has a relationship with him. The last time he confronted Babyface, this person was on the side, and this person can be regarded as the babyface's younger brother, named Yin Fuyou, but they are not brothers, but everyone is a neighbor, usually called that, just used to it.

The baby-faced name is Meng Chao, he is a bully in the third grade, and he usually has no hobbies, just teasing girls, playing basketball, playing cards, and eating and playing with a few fox friends and dogs, that's all.

Yin Fuyou's family is well-off, bold and reckless, and he has already organized a small group in elementary school. When he arrived in junior high school, he was assigned to the fourth class, and often followed Meng Chao into various places, because of his close relationship with Meng Chao, he quickly pulled a group of freshmen around him, and his prestige reached its peak for a while.

Maybe one morning, Yin Fuyou woke up in a boring class, looked out the window, and thought that he hadn't done something interesting when he came to junior high school, and hadn't found two people to play, and he suddenly felt a little excited. After thinking about it, it seemed that no one provoked him, and then he thought about it, and finally turned out a person in the depths of his brain, that is, the mud leg who dared to confront Brother Meng Chao. As soon as he thought of this, he was so excited that he couldn't help himself, and he didn't care about the teacher who was talking endlessly on the podium, gathered his two friends, and began to discuss how to treat the kid after class.

At that age, how could a child have the ability to distinguish between right and wrong, just to see that Yin Fuyou was rich and powerful, and the other party was just a poor boy who had just come from the countryside. So one by one, the weak people, dreaming that they would be able to be pulled by someone when they were in trouble in the future, even if no one helped, it would be good if they could not be beaten by the water dogs, so they joined the ranks of Zou Shun one after another.

They are weak, afraid of loneliness, and always want to fit in with a group, which is like having no support and no backing. They ate together, played together, skipped school together, and did things they didn't want to do together.

Later, an exam separated them (in fact, most of them left before they made it to that exam), after separation, they could no longer see each other as before, and the content of their chat slowly changed from Haikan from the south and north of the world to borrowing money, whether the money will be repaid after borrowing money is also a big question mark, such a relationship naturally quickly collapsed, but these are things in the future, at least for the time being, they are very united.

After discussion, they felt that it would be good to only show three people, otherwise the posture would be too big, and it would make the kid feel honored. The other two are Yin Fuyou's best friends, let's call them big and strong, both of them are relatively tall and should be good at fighting.

They came to the door of the third class and found someone to call Zou Shun out. When Zou Shun saw them, he was confused in his heart, and at this time. Yin Fuyou on the other side spoke: "You kid is a dick, right, dare to argue with my super brother!" Da Zhuang wasted no time in taking it and said, "What do you have to say to him, go, go to the toilet!" ”

Zou Shun was suddenly scared in his heart, came to the school for more than a month, and gradually understood the rules of middle school, when he was just promoted to junior high school, the newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, bloody, courageous, and lucky, met Xu Lihong. But now, after staying for more than a month, after understanding the rules of junior high school, he no longer has the courage to face Yin Fuyou in front of him like Meng Chao. He knew that if he went to the toilet, a bad fight would be inevitable, and when he thought of this, his legs seemed to be frozen, and he couldn't move his steps. His bloodiness disappeared, not by a fight, but by a slow drain later when he learned the rules of middle school. Just when the two sides were at a stalemate, Feng Zongwei appeared, and he saw him mediating and persuading Yin Fuyou and others to leave in a few words.

Fortunately, Zou Shun still knows Feng Zongwei, and Feng Zongwei also happens to have a certain reputation, otherwise Zou Shunshi doesn't know what to do.

In the days that followed, Yin Fuyou and others haunted Zou Shun incessantly, but the two sides never reached the point of fighting each other. Sometimes Zou Shun sat by the window, and a group of people would gather around the window and knock on the glass, make fun of him, and tell him to go out, Zou Shun was full of timidity, but there was nothing he could do, so he had to endure two or three minutes of torment. Sometimes on the playground, they would discuss how to clean him up with the voice that Zou Shun could just hear, although Zou Shun looked calm, but he was already afraid of becoming a dog. Strange to say, however, they never had a head-on confrontation.

Zou Shun tried to avoid meeting them head-on, no matter what he did, he tried to avoid them, as long as he saw the shadow of Yin Fuyou, Zou Shun disappeared quickly like an antelope on the African savannah when he noticed the appearance of a lion. He lived a frightening life every day, always worried that on a certain day when Feng Zongwei was away, Yin Fuyou and others would clean himself up. But in the end, I finally got through the first semester safely.

Ironically, a few years later, Zou Shun's relatives came and went, Zou Shun found that among the people who planned to clean up himself, two of them were actually a little related to him, and what was even more ironic was that he and Yin Fuyou also had a very distant relationship, but fortunately, their relationship tended to normalize in the second half of the first grade, but the days of heart-pounding were deeply imprinted in Zou Shun's eyes and difficult to erase.

Many years later, Zou Shun recalled this humiliating and reluctant day again, and couldn't help sighing, he tried to analyze it from all aspects and various psychology, and tried to find some abnormal laws from it, but after thinking about it, he found that everything seemed reasonable.

When I grew up, I always complained that I was not rigorous enough when I was young, but that was a normal performance of a normal age, and who can say that the maturity after many years must be stronger than the sharpness of the youth? Although Zou Shun often feels indescribably ashamed of his timidity many years later, it is a normal manifestation in normal development, so what is there to be ashamed of?

Time has passed, too many ordinary things have been erased in the mind, only such things are still vivid, as if yesterday, this is not a good thing, can leave some memorable things in the most beautiful time, how lucky! Even if the memory is not particularly beautiful.

Students have heavy academic workloads, and various disciplines have put forward higher requirements for students, and many outstanding students have fallen in such an environment. Zou Shun gradually discovered that it is very important to distinguish priorities and make your own plans, otherwise it is easy to lose yourself in the interaction of various disciplines and lose the battle.

More than a month after the start of school, the exams of various subjects were held one after another, and the results came out one after another, the most unexpected thing was Zou Shun's English, before the exam, he still held an indifferent attitude, it doesn't matter if the exam is good or not, no one cares anyway. But the results of the test were surprising, he actually surpassed Li Wenrong and took the first place in English.

Afterwards, he reflected on the reason for his success in English, and felt that it should be that at the beginning of the school year, everyone was busy adapting to the new life, and he had already integrated into this life, and when the teacher taught phonetic transcription, he studied seriously, which laid the foundation for his later learning, and many of his classmates had not adjusted at that time, in short, many of them gave up the most important class in English learning.

In later days, even if they wanted to learn seriously, the teacher would no longer talk about the basic knowledge of phonetic transcription, so they had to rely on Chinese characters to assist themselves in phonics, and the effect can be imagined.

Zou Shun's first place in English also surprised English teacher Li Yue - although she had long forgotten the imprint on the teenager in the first class. Li Yue always thought that Li Wenrong, the representative of her class, would win the first place, but now she was compared by another student, and she was both a little happy and a little regretful. Either way, it's always good to be able to teach a few of these potential students.

Zou Shun's biology also achieved good results, and he was not only the first in the class, but also the first in the grade. Biology teacher Zhu Shengnan has a lot of personality, she said in the first class that she didn't want the class representative appointed by the class teacher, she wanted to use the results of the first exam to choose the class representative, so Zou Shun is now holding two positions - mathematics and biology class representative.

As a result of this victory, Zou Shun has always had a special affection for biology in the days to come, and has always felt that he has a talent for this discipline. In fact, for most people, grades determine interest, and interest in turn affects grades, the two complement each other, if a person stumbles in the first battle, he may be ready to fight again, but at this time, he has lost the sharpness of the first battle, if he continues to walk Waterloo in the later battles, then he will lose confidence in this war. Fortunately, Zou Shun achieved good results at the beginning, cultivated interest, and continued to increase his confidence in the future, so that even if there was a big defeat later, he would not be defeated.

After the exam, Zou Shun found that his advantages gradually appeared, and those students who usually talked eloquently in class often did not perform well in the exam, on the contrary, those students who usually looked plain and had no sense of existence did well in the exam. Maybe this is the so-called half-pot of water jingle bell? However, the irony is that when Zou Shun went to college, the same situation also appeared to him, and he could often make one or two amazing remarks in class, but when he took the exam, he was often the one at the bottom.

Strange to say, but it doesn't seem strange, Zou Shun has been in the class for more than a month, but he found that he hasn't finished recognizing his classmates, maybe because he doesn't pay much attention to the people around him, or maybe because the girl is too low-key.

Zou Shun's acquaintance with this girl is also a bit strange, because junior high school biology is basically "memorizing more points", and the teacher will inevitably inspect the students' recitation, but Teacher Zhu's energy is limited, so he has to arrange the group leader, and the group members recite at the group leader, and the group leader naturally checks the class representative office.

Their acquaintance was in a recess, after class, Zou Shun sat silently on the seat for a while, then got up and prepared to go to the balcony to change the air, just took two steps, suddenly felt someone behind him pat his shoulder, Zou Shun's instinctive reaction told him that he was Xiao Peng, that kid likes to shoot himself in the back, so Zou Shun didn't think about it, his head didn't turn, his elbow pushed directly back, only to hear a slight muffled snort, this muffled snort scared Zou Shun, Xiao Peng didn't make this sound, he turned his head suddenly, I found an embarrassing smiling face hanging on a girl's face facing her. The girl looked ordinary and featureless, but the hairstyle was so special that Zou Shun couldn't name it - there were pigtails tied at the back of her neck on the left and right sides, and a long bunch of hair was draped in the middle, reaching to the back, and the hair was really smooth, like Suzhou silk, gently touching her back, as if it would slip off her back if she was not careful. It can be seen that she cherishes her bunch of green silk very much, and she does not forget to take care of it even if she is very heavy in her studies.

Zou Shunke panicked and hurriedly apologized, but the other party seemed to be reluctant to mention what happened just now, and vaguely replied to explain the intention, it turned out that she was one of the team leaders, to accept spot checks, Zou Shun saw that she was not unusual, and felt a little relieved. Such an embarrassing thing happened, Zou Shun was naturally embarrassed to embarrass others again, so he hastily checked a few questions and let her go.

Asked about her name - Tang Yahui.

It is said that when her father gave her this name, he hoped that she would be elegant and intelligent, and his father did not spend much effort for her name, because when she first went to the household registration department, the people in the household registration department changed her name to Tang Yahui, and his father changed the name several times in and out of the household registration department.

This is the first acquaintance of Zou Shun and Tang Yahui, just like a leaf fluttering across the river, only a moment later, the wind and waves are calm, the leaves only say that all this is normal, but who knows what kind of waves it left on the river.

At the same time, due to the change of position, another girl gradually entered Zou Shun's eyes, and Fang Min and Zhang Huiyin next to Zou Shun and them had been transferred away, and were replaced by two other girls, one of whom had the same short hair as Wang Jie, and her appearance was very sweet, and the two dimples would be revealed when they smiled, and they were typical little girls next door. Seeing her is like seeing a chubby child, always wanting to pinch her face.

Zou Shun has heard a sentence: If you really like someone, you won't make her angry, because you really like someone, you can't even touch it, how can you be willing to make her angry? Zou Shun obviously doesn't like this short-haired girl, he often teases her, and also provokes her to provoke her, if he really likes someone, he should be like he did to Wang Jie, take care of it carefully, and hide it silently.

The short-haired girl is named Wen Yue, she looks young and cute, but she is a member of the disciplinary committee in the class, it is strange to say, she looks thin and weak, but she can deter the whole class, even the most arrogant stubble in the class, will give her a little face, in contrast, the other discipline inspection committee is more wretched, although it is a boy, but if you want him to yell twice in the class to discipline, he will immediately coax.

Wen Yue is a good hand in discipline, but her grades are really not flattering, and Zou Shun doesn't know which subject she is the worst, only that geography is very tricky for her.

Now it is necessary to introduce their geography teacher, the teacher's surname is Jiang, his name is Ao, it is said that he graduated from a famous university, however, at this time, the students have no discernment of famous universities, in their eyes, there are only two types of universities, one is called Tsinghua University and Peking University, and the other is called other universities. This Teacher Jiang is from the second category, since this is the case, Zou Shun and the others have to think in their hearts that he is from a prestigious school of other universities, which seems to be a good title.

It is said that Mr. Jiang majored in Chinese in college, but after graduating from Guanlian Middle School, he became a geography teacher, and he was indignant, always feeling that he was overdone and wronged himself. Of course, these are all heard from other teachers, and as for the truth or falsehood, it should be eight or nine without ten.

Marie Curie is said to have said that science has nothing to do with personal life. However, Jiang Ao's work is not about studying natural sciences, but about education, so it has something to do with his personal life. He has a nephew, who is in Zou Shun's class, and the child's aunt is Jiang Ao's wife, but a few years ago, his wife ran away for many reasons, but Zou Shun couldn't know the details, only knew that his wife was dissatisfied with his various behaviors, and then, ran away. Although the two have a child, but the child can't prevent these things from happening, Jiang Ao's heart is becoming more and more withdrawn, and it is becoming more and more difficult to integrate with others, even many teachers, and the relationship with him is not even a faint friendship.

As for Mr. Jiang's teaching, it can only be described as simple and crude. Even after many years, Zou Shun recalled that the scene of Jiang Ao's teaching still seemed like yesterday.

Jiang Ao has several characteristics in class: First, he disdains to write. No matter what he says, try not to use the pen if he can, sometimes everyone really can't understand, begging him, he reluctantly draws a simple explanation on the blackboard or a few words on the board. The second is disdain to answer questions. Many students can't understand his explanation, and if he wants to explain it in detail, he will start to shirk or even ignore it. The third is that he is reluctant to communicate with his classmates. He always used the most concise language during the lecture, and sometimes he had to hold back for a long time, and when the students had questions, he pretended not to hear and continued to read his books.

In those years of taking the exam, he didn't even bother to do such things as marking the key points, so that many students lived in the shadow of geography for a year. In the subject of geography in junior high school, it is difficult to memorize a few diagrams, add a little text, and do the questions twice, but such a simple subject has become a heart disease for many students.

Jiang Ao's many problems, Zou Shun was one of the first students to see. One day, he suddenly asked himself a question: What did he learn in this class? This seemingly simple question, but he suddenly asked himself, he had taken so many classes, but suddenly found that he only remembered a little fragment of the first class, he was a little panicked, so he listened carefully to the class, carefully followed the teacher's train of thought, and after a class, he found that he still gained little.

After the first month, the exams of various subjects were successively completed, although Zou Shun was not the best, but English biology was very top-notch, and some other subjects were also in the forefront, although the absolute score of geography was very low, but the relative ranking in the class was also passable, but compared with the students in other classes, it was much inferior.

Zou Shun, who saw the truth, understood what he should do like an epiphany: read the book by himself, made the workbook by himself, and read it again and again until he remembered all the mistakes. Since you can do this by yourself, why do you still take classes? What else do you need a teacher for? In class, it is naturally a happy time, all kinds of stubble to find the teacher, all kinds of jokes, a lifeless geography class, because Zou Shun began to become lively and interesting, everyone saw him so presumptuous, and naturally he was not willing to follow suit, but most of them have no humor cells, and naturally they can't gallop in the classroom like Zou Shun, such as entering no one's land, Zou Shun at that time, can be described as a spring breeze. Jiang Ao looked at him unpleasantly, but he couldn't catch his handle, so he was helpless.

It's just that many years later, Zou Shun recalled these days again, and only felt that he was too young, too hot-blooded, too grandstanding, and too sharp, but in the dark, all this seems to be the best arrangement, if he can't be enthusiastic once, it will be a waste of youth. Doing something bloody when it's hot, who's to say it's a mistake? It's just that we have to grasp a degree.

After the first month of the exam, Zou Shun was barely half a top student in the class, because he usually likes to joke, and many girls can talk very well, Wen Yue is one of them, they really started to communicate because of a geography exam, at that time Zou Shun's results have been recognized, in the geography exam, Wen Yue naturally and Zou Shun to exchange answers.

During the exam, Wen Yue could be said to be asking Zou Shun for "help" in a low voice, at this time Zou Shun had no concept of cheating, even if he had the concept of cheating after many years, in the face of such a cute girl's request, I am afraid he would not refuse. During the exam, he tried his best to help her, thinking that she would thank him after class, but he didn't expect to get a slightly ridiculous and praiseful sentence: "This baby is so smart!" Zou Shun was unhappy, but he didn't pay too much attention to it.

However, due to this opportunity, there are more and more topics between the two, and they are not equipped with mobile phones when they first enter middle school, so they still retain the traditional communication method - passing notes. Speaking of this, a picture immediately appeared in Zou Shun's mind, the homeroom teacher walked slowly from the desk passage with the textbook, explaining as she walked, and when she just walked past a table with her back to the podium, a note passed through the passage, set off a breeze from behind Lin Yujun, and came to another table.

When they first entered the school, they were passing notes every day, passing them in class, and passing them on in the evening self-study, and the only time they could take a break was after class, during which they could communicate directly, but the strange thing was that they couldn't communicate, because it was the time for fighting.

Although he was passing notes every day, Zou Shun didn't remember what the two of them were talking about, he only knew that no matter how ordinary things were, they could take them out and talk for a long time, and a small topic could lead to countless words.

Years later, Zou Shun tried to search for a little trace of chat in his mind, but his mind was always confused, and there seemed to be some fragments, but they were not clear and difficult to tell.

Perhaps, some things only appear in the right place at the right time, in the right person, and after that period of time, that memory will be erased, but not completely erased, so that you remember what happened, but you can't remember what happened. There is only one thing that Zou Shun is very sure of, that is, during that time, he was very happy, and those things that he can't remember may have been written into his bone marrow with the passage of time.

What is forgotten has nothing to do with grief or regret, it will be forgotten, it just means that it is not deep enough.