Chapter XII

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At the beginning of the school year, Zou Shun lived in his grandfather's house, closer to the school, and naturally had no chance to live in the school, of course, he didn't like to live in the school in his heart, he liked freedom, even if he couldn't be absolutely free, but as long as he could be more free than most of the people he saw in front of him, he would be satisfied.

The changes in the people in the rental house are also obvious, and the sense of resistance of the Wan family brothers began to awaken, and sometimes they secretly raised the bar with Gu and Shang, but it was not too obvious, often making the two of them angry, but they didn't know where to go out of that gas, so they had to swallow it.

Gu Tianyuan thinks about skipping class all day long, according to his words, when he is in class, he thinks about skipping class to go out to play ball, sleep, and play games, but when he really does those things, he wants to go back to see that group of people, and now it is March, June is the high school entrance examination, and he can't be admitted to high school, and the future of vocational high school is in vain, so he can only get by, and kill every day.

Xu Lihong is similar to Gu Tianyuan, who has been in this school for three years, and he doesn't seem to have left anything. If it was before, those big brothers who were thriving in this middle school often became the talking point of later generations after graduation, and in the mouths of this group of hot-blooded young people, of course, there was still respect, but now these big brothers have long lost the courage of those predecessors, and now the environment is too peaceful, and it is too difficult to make some shocking facts like before. After three years, the only thing that can prove that I have been here is probably the junior high school diploma that has little effect.

The third-grade students are already downcast, and they no longer have the heart to form gangs and increase their contacts, and some people are bent on studying to be admitted to a good high school, after all, knowledge is the shortcut for these rural children to change their fate; Some people are bent on falling in love before graduation, after all, they can no longer find such pure and ignorant feelings after leaving this door; Some people can't do both, and they don't know where the road ahead is, so they have to take out their mobile phones, call three or two playmates, no matter going to and from class, day and night, burying their heads in their mobile phones, and only thinking about smashing the screen of the mobile phone......

The third grade began to fade out, and the second year naturally rose. Teachers often say that second-grade students are the most difficult to manage, the first grade is still adapting, not stepping on the ground, the third grade is mature and sensible, and there is no quarrel with others, only the second grade, just after the first grade was oppressed, and now it has to be imposed on the new first grade, and it is the most high-flying and domineering to cause trouble all day long. Shanghu is an outstanding representative of this.

Of course, the biggest change is probably Feng Zongwei, Zou Shun can't tell where he has changed, but he feels that they have become weird, and they have begun to have a separation, and they are no longer as close as before. Although the two still sleep in the same bed, they still get up together in the morning to study on their own, they still go to class together during the day, they still eat together at noon and in the afternoon, and they still go to eat fried potatoes together in the evening......

But the change is in the middle, the two sleep in the same bed but rarely talk, Feng Zongwei only cares about playing with his mobile phone, Zou Shun has no choice but to sleep, Feng Zongwei no longer does reading questions like before during early self-study, instead of sleeping, when in class, the teacher listens to it strictly, and takes out his mobile phone if he is not strict, although he still eats together, but the frequency of eating together has decreased a lot, more often Feng Zongwei will choose to be with Li Guang and others, Li Guang and Feng Zongwei are partners who have played since childhood, The relationship between Zou Shun and Feng Zongwei is naturally not comparable.

And this semester there was also a boy named Wu Yi, I don't know where he studied before, he was very strong in sports, and he filled the position of the sports committee as soon as he came, and he played basketball well, although he was not as good as Li Guang, but he was also ranked number one in the whole grade.

The three of them form an iron triangle, and the sport of basketball binds them together.

In addition, all three of them have one distinct trait, which is handsomeness. In the past, Zou Shun really didn't pay attention to the appearance of boys, in his eyes, boys were all the same, until one day Feng Zongwei inadvertently said a word to him, he didn't face up to this problem. Feng Zongwei said: "The third-grade senior sister said that there are three handsome guys in our class, do you know which three? ”

Zou Shun was obviously stunned, and he didn't know why the first person he subconsciously reacted to would be himself, and when the logic returned to normal, he thought about it carefully for a while, and said calmly: "It should be you, Li Guang and Wu Yi." ”

Feng Zongwei did not deny it.

If Feng Zongwei hadn't said this, Zou Shun might never have noticed his appearance, one meter six tall, neither tall nor short at this age, neither fat nor thin, the key is this face, this is the first time Zou Shun has taken this face seriously, carefully and thoroughly, do boys also have the difference between good-looking and ugly? This question appeared in my mind for the first time.

The face in the mirror was too ordinary, although he didn't know why it was an ordinary face, and he didn't know what kind of face was a handsome face. I only know that in the eyes of girls, there is a difference between boys' faces, just like boys look at girls' faces.

The boys' faces are also divided into good-looking and bad-looking, faces like Feng Zongwei, Li Guang, and Wu Yi are good-looking faces, Zou Shun carefully examined their faces, looked at them directly, and saw that their faces no longer looked like their faces, Zou Shun finally saw some doorways, they all had two eyebrows, two eyes, two ears, a nose, two nostrils, a mouth, the same not much, the same a lot, symmetrical to each other, coordinated with each other, it was really good-looking.

After a winter vacation, Wen Yue seemed to have accumulated a mole of words, all of which were packed in the separating funnel, and as soon as she saw Zou Shun, she turned on the piston and poured him all down, regardless of whether Zou Shun was willing to accept it or not. Wen Yue likes to talk about her New Year's experience: she got up in the morning and ate two bowls of rice, the rice was made of Thai fragrant rice, which her mother asked someone to buy from the street, and she got a sharpened chopsticks, which were sharpened to skewer potatoes when frying potatoes in the past, and the chili water was not spicy enough, and the chili peppers that Mom and Dad ate in Guangdong were not spicy, and the ones they got home were not spicy......

Zou Shun is definitely a qualified listener, no matter how difficult the topic, no matter how trivial the matter, he always maintains a very interested appearance, but who can refuse a lovely girl with two beautiful dimples to confide?

Two young boys and girls chat every day without going to class, it is easy for people to misunderstand, no, less than a month after the start of school, rumors were born, rumors have a characteristic, that is, they will never ask for the opinions of the parties. And sometimes I have to admire the rumor-mongers, because they can tell others some things that only the parties know about without the parties involved, and even the situation of their dating is clear, and they also talk about the truth, and even some details are not omitted, just like when Taishi Gong told in detail about Li Si and Zhao's conspiracy to tamper with the edict.

As for the two parties, Wen Yue explained to everyone while continuing to maintain the status quo with Zou Shun, looking like a clear person. As for Zou Shun, he is not so diligent, he is too lazy to pay attention to the rumors, or should he eat and sleep, if some people who really want to inquire about the facts ask him if he is in love with Wen Yue, he will firmly answer no, and the person who asked the question saw that he was so determined, so he had to leave in disbelief.

At this time, although it is not as unacceptable as it was a few decades ago, there is no need to be as grassy as it was then, and there is no need to be looked down upon, on the contrary, people who fall in love will have a sense of superiority, because only excellent people will like it. But Zou Shun was very angry, there was nothing between the two, but this kind of thing was rumored, and I don't know what the mentality and purpose of this rumor-monger is, but some people don't need a purpose at all to do things, and they don't need benefits, they eat a few big bowls of rice all day long, wake up in a certain class, open their sleepy eyes, glance at the teacher on the podium, feel bored, touch their bulging belly, look at the willow branches outside the window dancing in the wind, everything is naturally chasing, and what should they chase? Just when he was in a state of confusion, he saw a notebook handed from Wen Yue's hand to Zou Shun's table, so he found something to do, and then rumors prevailed, and then something happened.

It was a sunny day, and everything seemed relaxed, it was a big recess, and there were thirty minutes for the students to play. Zou Shun went to the toilet, and when he came back, he heard Feng Zongwei say that Wenyue was called to the office by the head teacher Lin Yujun, it is inferred that it is probably because of falling in love, Zou Shun has a big question mark in his heart, and asks: "Then why didn't the head teacher call me?" ”

"Maybe I want to interrogate you separately, you have to be mentally prepared."

Zou Shun had nothing to do, and he couldn't rush into the office to ask the head teacher to fire at him, and it was useless to be in a hurry, so it was better to sit down and think about how to deal with it.

After about twenty minutes, Wen Yue came back, there was no sadness and joy on her face, her eyes were a little red and swollen, obviously she had cried, Zou Shun only felt sorry for this girl for a while, Lin Yujun must have said something excessive to her. Lin Yujun was extremely opposed to early love, she once said that if she found out that there were classmates in the class who were in early love, she would send them home, and she would match both parties, send a warm water bottle, and end the marriage. This is of course intimidation, but her attitude towards early love can be seen, for her, preventing early love is like guarding against jackals.

As soon as Wen Yue sat down, Zou Shun was about to go out to accept Lin Yujun's bombardment, and just as he was about to step out of the door, Wen Yue stopped him and asked, "Where are you going?" ”

"Go find Lin ...... Teacher. Zou Shun wanted to go back to Lin Yujun, but suddenly thought that this was in front of the public, so he stopped the car in time.

"She didn't call you, why did you go to her?" Although Wen Yue's voice was a little hoarse, Zou Shun still heard every word clearly.

"You're saying she didn't tell me to go to her? So what does she mean and why is she only talking to you? Zou Shun didn't wait for Wenyue's answer, just waited for the class bell and Jiang Ao's hateful face.

During class, Zou Shun tried hard to find Wen Yue to understand the situation, although the two were not like rumors, but a large part of this was caused by himself, if he blindly shrank behind the girl, he was afraid that he would be laughed at by the world. But Wen Yue was surprisingly quiet, and when she asked her about the situation, she refused to say anything, only affirmed one thing, that is, the head teacher talked to her because she was in love. The anger in Zou Shun's heart was accumulating strength like a volcano about to erupt, but he couldn't find a place to vent. Now he doesn't hate those rumor-mongers, but he is angry at Lin Yujun's ignorance, and he is also a boy, he doesn't look for himself, he actually goes to find trouble with girls, and the old lady picks persimmons and picks up soft pinching. Although Zou Shun was angry, he was helpless.

Two days later, Zou Shun overheard a speculation, saying that Mr. Lin Yujun did not look for him because he was the first in the grade, for fear of affecting his learning, while Zou Shun was stunned, he felt a deep helplessness, because of the grades, he didn't even have the right to take responsibility as a man, just like Xianglin's sister-in-law had no right to work, how ironic!

Doesn't the class teacher pay so much attention to grades? Then let her take a look at her results, let her see if she should take responsibility, Zou Shun said hatefully in his heart. Such a day is not far off, because more than a month has passed, and the language exam will be held.

According to Zou Shun's original plan, he wanted to choose his multiple choice questions wrong, maybe some people think that this is not easy, because Zou Shun once read a story, a father because his child's grades are too bad to talk to his child, this father went against the ordinary father's approach, did not blame, did not scold, but set a bet with his son to score zero points, the test paper must be answered, can not fill in the blank paper word for word, can not keep the question not answered, let alone leave the field to escape, if the child scores zero points to win. Of course, the father finally achieved his goal and made the child achieve good grades.

Indeed, if he really wants to meet the requirements of that father, Zou Shun will definitely not be able to get zero points, but he only needs to score zero points in the multiple-choice questions, which is still relatively easy, it is not easy for a normal student to choose the correct answer, but he can always eliminate one or two wrong answers.

Zou Shun waited for the arrival of the Chinese exam with his own careful thoughts, like a knight in full gear about to wave his handsome horsewhip, like a well-equipped soldier waiting for the horn of the charge, he stretched out his nose and sniffed carefully the breath of the exam in the air, when he saw Teacher Lin Yujun walking into the classroom with a stack of test papers, he was like a hunting dog, looking at his prey hungrily.

He made it all the way, and everything was as he expected.

There were fifty minutes left in the exam, and as he was thinking about the essay questions, a bold idea came to him, and after some thought, after five minutes, he changed all the answers to the multiple-choice questions to the answers that he thought were correct, and then began to write the essay.

It was a week later when I saw the test paper again, and that day, the head teacher, Mr. Lin, came in with the test paper, without any expression on his face, no anger, no joy, no anger, and no joy, as if this was the same as all ordinary days, Zou Shun was a little disappointed.

The first is to send the test papers, and if you feel that you have done well in the exam, you will naturally look forward to it, in fact, it cannot be said that you are looking forward to it, because students who do well in the exam will generally hide their expressions very carefully, for fear of leaving a handle for others.

Students with average grades who feel that they are at the same level as themselves will release their words and say that they must have done very poorly in the test this time, and if they send out the test papers and find that they have done well, they will stop talking, and if they are really psychologically prepared for their own words, they will even show off to others: "Look! I'm right! ”

Only those who really have no expectations for their achievements will really express their hearts, and of course this is not necessarily to praise them, because a person who has no enthusiasm for what he does and who does not care about himself really can't find any reason to praise him.

Under the test papers, Zou Shun's grades are not high, of course they are not low, not high means that he did not get the first place, as for the number of the first, it doesn't matter, because no one cares about the people after the first place.

The first thing he did when he got the test paper was naturally to look at the composition, and he got thirty points for the forty-point composition, which is very ordinary, although few people in the class can get this score, but this score is too ordinary for him, because he was this score almost every time last semester, even if there is a deviation, it will not exceed two points.

He couldn't help but wonder if his essay was really worth thirty points. Lin Yujun is definitely not stupid, she can definitely understand what she means, but why can she still get 30 points for such an essay? Zou Shun had a stomach full of questions, but no one could answer.

Teacher Lin began to explain the test papers, she spoke very slowly, it seemed to be slower than any time before, in the past, she always had to spend two classes to talk about the test papers, but now? Well...... It seems that there are still two classes, but Zou Shun always feels so slow and slow.

Teacher Lin dragged her slow tone to the composition section, the tone did not change, about her steps to talk about the composition, Zou Shun recited it backwards, the first step is to read the materials and requirements, the second step is to explain and analyze, that is, how to write, and then the third step should talk about the problems that students have in this composition.

But this time it was a little different, Mr. Lin added a little drama, and added one step at the beginning: commenting on the writing level of the students.

"Students, this is your first exam at the beginning of the semester, and after a New Year, you have returned all the skills you learned last semester, right?" This sounds like a question sentence, but Mr. Lin didn't seem interested in listening to the students' answers, and continued: "Composition is something to practice, although there are some skills, but it is always just the icing on the cake, more to practice down-to-earth, it seems that you have a good winter vacation!" The word "good" was dragged by her for a long time, full of ridicule.

Teacher Lin also gushed her condemnation on the podium, but no one seemed to care, children who grew up in this environment have long honed an ability, that is, to listen to things that don't go their way, and make their own decisions. Especially in the group, this ability is even more vividly manifested, everyone in line with the mentality that the teacher scolded me is not the only one, let her go crazy there, just don't move.

What's more, people always substitute the good aspects into themselves and the bad aspects into other people, so when you are angry with a group of people, even if you hint at the person you want to scold, as long as you don't name them, people still look like they don't care about themselves, and you don't have to be too angry at this time, because human nature is like this, and even the nature of living things is like this - seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages.

After Ms. Lin was angry, she still had to continue the lecture, and although she tried to calm her mood, her voice still sounded a little fluctuating.

"Everyone look at the information of this question, 'new semester, new atmosphere, in the new year just passed, I believe you must have spent a very unforgettable happy time, but in school, there are also many beautiful scenes worth picking up, teachers, classmates, alumni, may have spent a very memorable day with you, please pick up the fragments, do a sharing ......'" When Teacher Lin finished the first step of her explanation, she immediately started the second step of the explanation.

"You say, is this a difficult topic? Isn't it asking you to pick one or two things that will be memorable on campus? I don't even want to talk about this kind of topic, but there are still people who write that they eat and drink in the New Year, visit relatives and friends, don't they know the words of the question? Or is there something wrong with the brain? ……”

When Mr. Lin spit out the last breath of anger in his chest, he shook his steps and walked back to the podium with satisfaction, Zou Shun thought that it was finally over, but there were still five minutes before the class ended! I don't know how she'll spend this last time.

Teacher Lin took a sip of water and said, "There are five minutes left, and I'll read a sample essay to you." Zou Shun was still digesting her last sentence, and before she could figure out how she had changed her previous routine today, she heard Teacher Lin ask her to give her the test papers, if in the past, this was of course a showmanship, especially attractive to these twelve or thirteen-year-old boys and girls. But today is different, can the essay on your own test paper be publicized in the class? Zou Shun was still hesitating, but Teacher Lin didn't give him more time to think, and took the test paper away from his desk while he was stunned.

"The New Year's bell had just struck, and before the lantern had had time to be glimpsed, I arrived at the school after a long January absence on a spring morning, carrying a heavy bag.

I came very early, and when I came, there were very few pedestrians on the road, only the rooster that got up early and the owl who slept late could prove my arrival. If you ask me why I came so early, I must answer, because I want to meet those lovely people.

In the new semester, the people in the class have changed a lot, some have become taller, some have lost weight, some have become more beautiful, and some have worked harder. I live among them, I learn among them, and I play among them......

I have a good friend who we play with a lot, she's a girl, I'm a boy, we share when we're happy, we share when we're sad, we argue with each other over a question, and we talk about the amount of salt in the cafeteria. Maybe we talk too much, we will chat after class, and we don't forget to pass a note in class, if you ask me what is written on it, I will tell you gently, I don't know. Maybe some people are lonely by nature, and it is difficult to find friends by nature, so there are some inexplicable emotions in the heart when they see those close friends, is he lonely? Is it jealousy? Or do you have nothing to do and have fun? In short, the rumors arose, like a violent wind, and I couldn't open my eyes, open my mouth, or breathe.

Maybe the wind was so strong that it blew into the ears of the homeroom teacher.

Do you think the teacher is going to beat me up? How is it possible, how can our wise and discerning head teacher be willing to beat me up? Of course, it wasn't like beating me up, she just called my friend to the office, I don't know what happened between them, I just know that my friend came back crying. What a discerning class teacher! When she read this, she deliberately aggravated the "discerning", and those words came out of her mouth one by one, and Zou Shun's heart became cold.

"The point is that the teacher didn't bother me, as if I was a coward hiding behind the girl's back, I had a lot of blood, full of anger, but I didn't know how to vent.

From then on, I seemed to be an alien in the eyes of people, and I had to keep my distance from the opposite sex, and I had to carry a ruler with me to measure the distance. I didn't know how to get along with the opposite sex, I didn't know how to persuade the teacher, and I didn't have the ability or interest to find out who spread the rumors. All I know is that if everyone could give a little love and be less harsh on other people, our world would be a better place. ”

After Mr. Lin finished reading, accompanied by the applause of the whole class and enthusiastic discussions, and when everyone's discussion was a little quieter, Mr. Lin asked Zou Shun: "What do you mean by writing this?" Zou Shun knew the answer, but he didn't know how to answer. I had to say vaguely: "I, no...... Know ......"

"Are you writing about your true situation?"

Zou Shun is still the same as just now, and his answer has not changed in the slightest. Just when Mr. Lin was about to continue the pursuit, the bell rang after class, seeing Zou Shun like that, even if he continued to ask, it was in vain, although he was a little curious in his heart, he had to give up and announce the end of class, Zou Shun breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, there was also a person who seemed to have just run two thousand meters, he was a little paralyzed, his face was pale, and everyone's focus was on Zou Shun and Teacher Lin just now, and no one noticed this girl, let alone her trembling legs.

This matter continues to ferment, Zou Shun is famous, his essay has become a confession model, and latecomers always use his deeds to show their intentions: "Do you want me to write my love for you when I take the exam?" Do you believe me? ”

Of course, the answer is often "Do you have as good writing as Zou Shun?" Even if you write it, the teacher won't read it. Moreover, the first person to do this is a genius, and the second and third? Add it yourself! ”