Chapter 9 Life Needs a Sense of Ritual

Lin Yi felt that it might be right to block Lao Xiong's mouth first, otherwise with the speed of his horn, it would soon be known to passers-by.

When the time came to Wednesday, of course, Lin Yi's homework last night was still copied from Xiao Haocheng.

For his behavior of "knowing his mistakes and not changing them", Lao Xiong, who prides himself on being a good tablemate, is deeply distressed but helpless.

When Lin Yi walked out of the cafeteria in the morning, he saw many classmates queuing up to buy zongzi, and then he remembered that today was actually the Dragon Boat Festival.

For students, the way they keep track of the day is generally according to the "day of the week", and the beginning of the semester - the middle of the term - the end of the semester.

Working parties are a bit more complicated, and they may also have to remember "the beginning of the month-the middle of the month-the end of the month", "the beginning of the quarter-the middle of the quarter-the end of the quarter" or "the beginning of the year-the middle of the year-the end of the year......

It depends on how often you have to submit a summary.

Today's morning reading and the first class in the morning were all in English, and the connection was extraordinarily long, and Lin Yi was drowsy when he heard it.

Finally stayed up until the bell rang at the end of class, and Mr. Wang, who teaches English, was on the podium while collecting the handouts, probably wanting to chat a few words, and said:

"You have to watch the Portugal game."

The World Cup is now a key topic of focus for Lin Yi, after all, all his wealth is pressed into it, so it immediately attracted his attention.

Today's most attention-grabbing session is not the duel between the traditional powers, but the singing of the national anthem before the start of the match between Brazil and North Korea, and the rough and tumble Zheng Dashi shed tears.

It's a complexity that Westerners can't understand, and they don't have an interest in knowing.

For domestic fans, this scene has become a memory coordinate for them to recall the World Cup in South Africa many years later, and it is still vivid.

Speaking of Portugal, their opponent last night was Ivory Coast led by Didier Drogba, which is half a home field as an African team.

And the purple army, which has superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, did not get a victory.

Lin Yi didn't expect that Mr. Wang, a delicate female streamer, actually knew how to play ball, and was ready to listen to her opinions with great interest.

I only heard her say with great sincerity:

"Because the players in the Portuguese team are very handsome."

Fine.

It's really unexpected and reasonable.

……

Regarding the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, Lin Yi remembers very well that he participated in a knowledge quiz contest in primary school, and the last question he encountered was:

"Empty, sprinkle sugar, and row a dragon boat with joy", let him fill in the blanks.

He hadn't heard it, so he didn't answer it, and he missed out on winning the race.

In fact, the riddle is very simple, it is the three words "eat zongzi".

At noon, Lin Yi hesitated after walking out of the cafeteria, and rarely turned to the commissary in the back.

He was going to buy an egg yolk meat dumpling, which was regarded as celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival for himself.

Life requires a sense of ritual.

He has always felt that this sentence is the biggest pitfall of consumerism.

But......

Three pieces of five, you can afford to spend.

Sure enough, there were quite a few people who stepped on this trap, and he honestly lined up at the end of the line.

In the era of smartphones, waiting in line was so boring that I didn't know how I had managed to hold on to it.

After a while, a hand patted his right shoulder behind him.

It's a little trick that I used to play in middle school.

Lin Yicai had only been back for a few days, but he had already adapted to it, so he turned his head directly to the left, and sure enough, he captured a classmate Zhang Jiaqi who wanted to tease him.

Zhang Jiaqi is not tall, with a mushroom-headed short hair that is common among girls, but the braces in her mouth are very conspicuous when she speaks.

Next to it, of course, is Gu Caiwei.

The two of them were always inseparable like conjoined babies, but Lin Yi knew that they would soon not be able to go in and out like this.

Zhang Jiaqi was not discouraged if he couldn't tease, and said hello very energetically: "Lin Yi, I haven't praised you yet, it's very MAN on Friday night." ”

The class was always full of people, and they hadn't had a chance to speak after that day.

Lin Yi glanced at Gu Caiwei.

"Someone has already thanked you."

"Cai Wei wrote you a postcard, I know. But don't think about it, just thank you. ”

Zhang Jiaqi specially emphasized that she has seen too many self-inflicted boys, after all, it is Gu Caiwei.

"I'm also just happy to help others."

Lin Yi is really not a self-inflicted amorous person, otherwise he should have loudly announced in his previous life, "Gu Caiwei is my first love!" ”

Of course, this sentence will not cause much sensation, because others will only make fun of it:

"All Vivian's fans think so, do you also think that Vivian has been waiting for you when she never gets married?"

With some useless thoughts spinning in his mind, he subconsciously glanced at Gu Caiwei.

This action was captured by Zhang Jiaqi, and she sneered: "Hmph, simple? ”

"Jiaqi ......" Gu Caiwei pulled her.

It turned out that Zhang Jiaqi's personality was such a bad woman when she was a freshman in high school, and Lin Yi complained in her heart, but she didn't plan to be like her.

In the future, there will be times when you cry.

"What are you here to buy?" He changed the subject.

"Today, my mother brought me a zongzi, and Jiaqi said that she also wanted to eat it, so she came to the commissary to buy one." Gu Caiwei replied decently.

Another person who stepped on a trap.

"Why don't you just divide it?" Lin Yi felt that if it were himself, he would definitely not be so troublesome.

"How can the zongzi be divided, then the meaning will be incomplete." Zhang Jiaqi said matter-of-factly.

Lin Yi couldn't understand this strange brain circuit: "I've only heard that you can't divide pears, but I haven't heard that you can't divide zongzi." ”

In fact, the truth is very simple, that is, Zhang Jiaqi wants to eat zongzi from the commissary.

However, if she admits it now, she has fallen into a disadvantage in the matter of bickering, so she must stick to the crooked reasoning to the end:

"That's your loneliness."

Lin Yi couldn't be reasonable when he knew this situation, but fortunately, he finally got to the counter and asked the proprietress of the commissary for an egg yolk meat dumpling.

"It's the last zongzi."

The proprietress quickly took the bag and put it on, and emphasized it slightly loudly so that the students in the queue behind could hear it.

"Ah, I didn't buy it when I came here on purpose."

Lin Yi heard Zhang Jiaqi's complaining voice behind him, as if he was talking to himself, after all, there was no one else here.

He thought for a moment that he didn't really want to eat, but just joined in the crowd.

But thinking of the conversation just now, he handed the bag over again and said:

"Do you want to give it to you?"

"What's so embarrassing?" said so, but Zhang Jiaqi had already stretched out his hand with a smile and was ready to take it.

"Forget it, I'd rather I'm embarrassed than embarrassed."

Lin Yi was by no means the kind of person who embarrassed others, so he took it back directly.

This turn was too blunt, so that neither girl expected it, and her eyes widened in surprise.

Lin Yi explained kindly: "In order to avoid this zongzi from causing trouble to Zhang Jiaqi, I reluctantly ate it myself." ”

After he finished speaking, he walked away with the zongzi in a chic manner.

"It's really going......" Zhang Jiaqi muttered quietly behind him.

"Jiaqi, the one I brought will be eaten for you first, and I will have it at home when I go back at night."

Gu Caiwei originally only came to buy it with Zhang Jiaqi.

While comforting Zhang Jiaqi, she watched Lin Yi's back gradually walk away, thinking that Lin Yi seemed to be different from before......