Chapter 2: Growing Pains
The relationship between people depends on the eye-to-eye, and who to make friends with is selective. Don't look at the small people, a group of children are also divided into gangs, and there are also leaders, it seems that some people are born to lead others, and some people are born to be led by others. And all along, Fei is the commander who is the leader at any time, and he enjoys the feeling of being regarded as the king by his friends. One day, a group of children were playing in the courtyard again, and a boy was playfully surrounded by several children in the middle lying in the snow to learn how to bark, and happened to be seen by Fei, and a scolding, those naughty children were unwilling but afraid of Fei's status and rich identity, and they all dispersed. After the crowd dispersed, Fei motioned for the boy to get up. The boy stood up slowly, standing in front of Fei was half a head taller than Fei, he wiped the snot that was about to be pulled into his mouth with the sleeve of his black shiny cotton jacket, and stood stupidly in place without saying a word and looked at Fei. Fei asked the boy what his name was, and he replied "Wei". Fei also knew that Wei was the same age as him, still in the same grade, but in different classes, and it was also because Wei was too unknown, so he never knew him. Fei also often bullies and teases other children, but he has no intention of bullying the child in front of him who is the same age as him, but inexplicably has more sympathy and concern, and thinks that Wei will be his follower in the future, maybe this is fate. Since then, Wei has become Fei's right-hand man, the most loyal friend, although it doesn't seem to be so compatible, Fei is always clean, Wei is always snotty, stupid, wearing black and extremely shabby and extremely ill-fitting clothes, and his speech is not so clean and neat, and he is afraid to wince, which does not affect the deep friendship between the two in the slightest. Later, the two were assigned to a class, and the relationship was even more iron.
Fei doesn't like to study, hates classes, hates boring teachers, and Wei is the same. The two often skip class together, make naughty mess and do bad things together, don't do homework together, and get slapped by the teacher together. Even one day, at the instigation of Fei, the two stopped the Chinese teacher who often beat and scolded them on the way home from the teacher, and beat the teacher hard until the teacher's two front teeth were knocked out, and then they were willing to give up and leave with a swagger, when they were only in the fifth grade. The next day, the teacher came to the classroom during class, one hand covering half of his swollen face, he did not go to class, and let the whole class study on their own. Surprisingly, the teacher did not reprimand Fei Hewei. In this way, he continued to study for a week, and he did not start class until the teacher's face was completely restored. It's just that the knocked out tooth has been empty, and no new teeth have grown.
Since then, the teacher has never cared about Fei and Wei, never asked them for homework, never called them by name in class, even if they were so crazy that the teacher never said a word. Later, when he became an adult, Fei always thought of this teacher, and his heart was still full of shame. It's just that at that time, Fei was still an ignorant teenager, no matter whether he was good or bad, he was too stubborn, always thinking about how to be in the limelight, racking his brains and thinking about how to do bad things.
At noon in the summer, after eating, he called a large group of boys to go to the trench to catch scorpions and snakes. They put the caught scorpions in bottles, put the snakes in snakeskin bags, and brought them to the school. Taking advantage of the fact that there is no class yet, the teacher is not in the classroom, quietly put the scorpion into the pocket of the girl's clothes, put the snake in the classroom and run around, the girl who accidentally touched the scorpion was scared and screamed, and at the moment of looking down, he looked at the snake spitting on the ground and was scared to cry and cry his mother, looking at the girl who was scared and crying, Fei and the other boys were both happy and proud. The boys in the class are flying under the leadership, becoming more and more reckless, not writing homework, not listening to class, skipping class, letting the teacher's bicycle angry, smearing glue on the teacher's bench, secretly putting snakes into the quilt of the principal's dormitory, giving girls nicknames, blocking girls around the corner and not calling my brother to let them go, in short, all bad things are done.
The boys in the class are all hated by the girls, but Fei is even the bad guy who started it, but there are many precocious and hazy girls in the class and even in the grade. Because he is too conspicuous, when almost all the students wear the family's homespun shoes on their feet, and when they wear the clothes made by their mother tearing the floor cloth on the stall and using a sewing machine, Fei wears beautiful leather shoes, and the clothes are also fashionable styles that cannot be seen in the countryside, and more importantly, he has a naturally beautiful and handsome face, which adds up to far greater than the wrong things he did because of ignorance and naughtiness, both boys and girls are willing to surrender to him and look up to him.
A child is always a child, and no matter how big a mistake is made, it is forgivable and will be forgotten with the passage of time. Childhood is always happy, beautiful, and the most passable. However, although it is short, childhood is the most impressive and influential in a person's life. The game under the poplar tree, the scene of frying the buns with an iron bucket in the snowflakes, the scene of the parents' meeting where they were afraid of being beaten and smeared with pepper on their eyes, and the funny incident of catching a scorpion in the trench with his companions and accidentally being stung and rolling on the ground, one by one, one scene at a time, all the laughter and tears of childhood, are the truth in the dreams of the rest of his life.
Children are always growing up and always expecting to grow up, and they think that they can grow up to be carefree and carefree. However, every adult with heavy steps wants to go back to his childhood, knowing that only childhood is the happiest and most pure. Sadly, people can't travel back and forth through time. The journey of life is a straight line that cannot be detoured, starting from the original point, and has been moving forward, going on, until one day you are tired, tired, stagnant at a certain point and no longer move forward, and will never be able to return to the original point.