However, after school on Friday, I still didn't skip coffee. The old class called me to the office as soon as class ended. I obediently followed, and found that Mr. Huang was also waiting for me there. It stands to reason that my results in this midterm exam were not too good, not too bad, in the early 200s, and I really don't know why the teachers talked to me so "excitingly".

They didn't praise me or scold me, at first they just dragged the report card around the computer in the old class. How many times have I said in the class meeting, the high school entrance examination is not only a test of the number of words, but also a score of political history. If you take a few more points in these two courses, you will be in the top two hundred. The old class said.

But Mr. Liu, you don't seem to have much time for political history homework in your evening self-study. Of course, I don't dare to say that.

"Peve, do you know how your friend is doing?" Teacher Huang on the side asked, his face was very kind. The old class also looked at me with a smile.

My friend? Why do you ask me this question? It's been a long time since anyone has asked me about my friend. Maybe I don't have many friends in the first place.

"I ...... I don't know, teacher, who are you talking about? Millet? Or Ye Ruiyang? Or rather......"

"Let's talk about the two of them." Mr. Huang interrupted my ramblings.

"They all did better than me. Ye Ruiyang should be 153? Miller is better, 31. I'm far worse than my friend, I'll definitely try my best next time......"

"Don't keep your head down, we're not here to criticize you." The old man, who was sitting on a chair with Jiro's legs crossed, patted me on the head with his hand.

I'm even more confused.

"We can gradually improve our grades, and the teachers can see that you are a child who is very concerned about learning, and you are very conscious. So we all believe that you will definitely get better and better in the future. "Mr. Huang's words seem to explain why they came to me. Probably want to motivate me, after all, your friends' grades are so good, you still have to work hard? But before saying this, we have to have a chicken soup for the soul of "appreciation education" as usual.

"'What is appreciation education?' It doesn't matter if he's crazy or stupid, just say, you're awesome. I don't remember exactly what TV series I saw. I think I know exactly what kind of person I am, so those words didn't work for me.

"But that's not what the teachers appreciate most about you." Teacher Huang suddenly changed his words, "But we feel that you are a child who can infect and influence others. ”

Yes?

Looking at me who was stunned, the two teachers repeatedly told me to take it easy and not to be very serious. But it's hard, not just because I'm in the office, but because I don't think "influencing people" is a good word. At least in school, the most common admonition that every student hears is "less influence on others."

"Don't be afraid. The impact we talk about is a good impact. Teacher Huang seemed to see through my thoughts, "Take Mi Le in our class as an example, his Chinese grades have improved a lot. He said that he quoted a lot of poems seen in the activities of the literary club in his composition, and it was you who took him to the literary club to play. He also told me that you like to read, and because he has been with you, he has become willing to read. ”

"Ye Ruiyang also told me that he usually can't be quiet at home, and always wants to play. But when studying with you at school, he seems to be very easy to meditate and very efficient. Lao Ban also spoke, "You still often discuss problems with each other, right?" ”

"But these are just ordinary little things. I didn't do anything. I replied in a low voice.

"Don't underestimate these little things. They are important to both you and your friends. Leo Tolstoy once said, 'All ideas that have a great impact are always very simple'. In fact, there are some very simple and shining places in you, which everyone can feel and like. The teacher can see that you are a child who likes to think. But the teacher wants to tell you that life is just as important as knowledge. The great German poet Goethe once said, 'All ideas are gray, and the golden tree of life is evergreen'. In life, you have to be more lively and confident, so that you must be good in all aspects, and everyone will like you more. ”

I don't know what kind of spirit Mr. Huang is talking about. But for some reason, listening to him talk like this, my mood was indeed much calmer.

He must have read a lot of books, and it's good to read.

"This young man is so good, I want to get him in my class." He patted me on the shoulder.

"I have to take the first place in your class in exchange, otherwise I don't have to talk about it!" The words of the old class suddenly made me feel that I had a bit of value, like a free agent who would be bought by everyone in the football transfer market.

"Napewe will definitely not agree, Miller and him are fine. You see, I'm waiting for him at the door right now. ”

I looked outside, Mi Le was really dangling at the door, and Ye Ruiyang was also there.

"You're going to play against Kitagawa tomorrow, right? Go back and get some rest. Teacher Huang said, "Go find your friends." ”

"Playing against Kitagawa Middle School?" The old class was a lot more energetic when he heard this, "Then you have to play hard, don't lose for me." Well, relax. Tonight's self-study is also a movie, and it took a week to try hard. ”

I thanked the two teachers, said that you had worked hard, said goodbye to them, and turned around and walked out of the office. When Mi Le and Ye Ruiyang saw me come out, they asked me if I was being scolded. This time I didn't lie, I told them no. So they asked me if I wanted to go to Qinhan Square to have a good meal, after all, I watched a movie today, and I didn't take a roll call for evening self-study, and most of the people who usually came went home.

I don't have any opinion, so I'll ask Brother Chuan. Ye Ruiyang said that he felt that he did not do well in the exam, and the pressure was a little great, so he went back to study.

Brother Chuan and Ye Ruiyang scored about the same, both of them were more than 100, and they were in the top three in the ordinary class. Mi Le did really well in the exam this time, ranking thirty-one in the whole school, and his Chinese progress was particularly great, with a score of 94, which should be among the top few in the grade. He said that when he wrote the essay, he used a lot of verses from the last poetry reading meeting, and the teacher gave him a high score. Only then did I know that after the activity was over, he had to leave all the manuscript papers of Mr. Zhou.

"Ke Ke, you have to work hard, this is the one you are best at, you can't be lower than me next time." When talking about his Chinese grades, he seemed to be a little embarrassed, as if he had stolen the limelight.

"Can you not do this, how can a person like me who scores more than 80 points live?" Ye Ruiyang smacked his lips seemingly dissatisfied. However, his math and English are good enough, plus biogeography is also good, although the Chinese test is average, and the overall score is quite good.

"That's what I said, you and Brother Chuan are more than 100, so how can I live a life of more than 200?" I also shrugged my shoulders with feigned displeasure.

"I think it's like the ranking of the Chinese team, you see, everyone scolds every day, treating the national team as a spittoon, in fact, the international ranking is basically in the 70s. But there are more than 200 members of FIFA (International Football Federation, referred to as FIFA), and those who are behind the Chinese team are going to commit suicide? So let's still want to open a little bit, don't keep comparing with each other. ”

That's the truth, if there is another classmate next to me who is slightly worse than me, maybe the three of us are showing off. In fact, each has its own troubles, and the grades may vary, but the level of pressure may be similar.

Ye Ruiyang suddenly smirked without warning, if he wasn't wearing a junior high school uniform, people on the street would probably think he was a psychopath. We asked him what was going on, and he gasped twice and said, "We have exactly 600 people in our grade, and multiplying the number of FIFA members by three is almost the number of grades, and multiplying the national team ranking by three, which is almost the same as my ranking." In other words, my level in school is equivalent to the level of the Chinese team in world football.

"I understand the reasoning, but why does it feel like I'm swearing?" Mi Le smiled and pushed Ye Ruiyang. It's good to be a child, and no one will care if you play around on the street.

We chose a dry pot shop in Qinhan Square and ordered a large pot of shrimp. Ye Ruiyang said that his ideal was to eat shrimp and eat death, but after the food came up, he still gave in. Now we have reached the stage of adding water to shabu greens, but it is the rice plate that has the most shrimp shells. However, it is very strange that Miller said that he wanted to go to the toilet halfway through and left for a long time. As soon as he came back, Ye Ruiyang said that he was going to the bathroom too, as if he was infected.

"Anyway, Brother Chuan, his parents are also staring at him very closely?" Miller asked.

Ye Ruiyang chewed on the powder, "Not at all, it's completely opposite to my father." His parents support him in everything he does. ”

"Then why is he so nervous, I was expecting four people to come out and play cards."

"So you want to play cards, I thought you would take me to a library tonight for self-study." I said as I scooped up vegetables for him with a colander.

"I'm too lazy to go, I just finished the exam, and there is a competition tomorrow, who wants to go to the library." As he spoke, his face was pinched again, "What, do you want to go?" I'll go with you if you want to. ”

Of course I didn't have that idea.

"I actually quite understand Brother Chuan. Well, in fact, the pressure is not so great, after all, I don't listen to my father, and I always say that I am rebellious and adolescence, where is it? Anyway, they never believed me, they couldn't communicate. So I felt that studying had nothing to do with him, it was completely my own business, just do a good job in his grades, and let him have nothing to say. It's Brother Chuan, his parents are university teachers, and they are very easy-going, so they didn't ask him too much. His parents trusted him completely, and he must have felt that he had to behave well to be worthy of them. And his family is so powerful, several brothers and sisters are either Harvard, Yale or Oxbridge, and going to Peking University and Tsinghua University is not new. Think about it, can he not be under much pressure? ”

"Obediently, this is too scary, if someone in our hometown can be admitted to Qingbei, the ancestral tomb will not be smoking, it will have to be fireworks." Mi Le shook his head again and again, "However, it seems that this is the first time I've heard Boss Ye say this about Brother Chuan, and I'm a little unaccustomed to it." Looks like he's still a very important friend to you. ”

"Hmph, it's father's job to care about his son."

After eating, we walked around the mall and found that there were no good movies in the theater. Mi Le complained that Ye Ruiyang didn't pull us out, but the film in the theater was not as good as the school. Ye Ruiyang spread his hands and said that he couldn't help it, who let the theater line up these science fiction films really have a good reputation.

"In other words, the current science fiction is really not as good as before, especially in foreign countries, the routines are the same, and the results are similar, no different from the Internet cool article. If you want me to say, the best is "2001: A Space Odyssey", the film of '68, although I didn't understand it too much after watching it three times, but I will watch it the fourth time. ”[1]

Mr. Ye's popular science class has started again.

"Do you know what Liu Cixin said? Da Liu was a middle school student like us when he read this work, but he read novels. You wait......" He turned on his phone and nodded anxiously, but fortunately he quickly found what he was looking for, "'I remember that winter night 20 years ago, after reading Clark's 2001: A Space Odyssey, I went out to look up at the night sky, and suddenly I felt that everything around me had disappeared, and the ground beneath my feet had become an infinitely extinitely white and smooth pure geometric plane. From then on, the starry sky was a different thing to me, and it felt like leaving a pond and seeing the sea. It gave me a deep appreciation for the power of science fiction. Seriously, although I can't quite understand the movie, I really feel exactly the same as him after watching it, everything in life seems to have changed, and the sky above me is deeper and farther. ”

We walked out into the street, the autumn wind with a chill blew on our faces, and Ye Ruiyang's teeth were trembling, as if they were frozen, and they were actually very excited. I couldn't help but look up at the sky, where the lights were so dense that I couldn't see a few stars. There was almost nothing in the night sky but darkness and light.

"How vast is the universe, and how small is humanity? After reading such works, those human beings made up nonsense and aliens are really not worth mentioning. Have you thought about it? What would happen to humanity if one day a civilization that was countless times ahead of us came to invade? What will happen to the Earth? ”

"If they were much more advanced than us, they wouldn't be very interested in the earth's resources, would they?" Miller replied.

"Not necessarily. Maybe they don't have the same set of emotions and values that we humans have, and to them we are like flies and mosquitoes. What is life? I'm afraid they don't have that concept. Billions of people can be wiped out at the touch of a finger, which is not worth thinking about at all. Maybe in the next second, an alien civilization will press the button to destroy the earth. ”

"It's scary." Miller shuddered and looked at me, "It won't be like this, so how will we live?" ”

I don't know what to say except to put my hand on his shoulder. I think Boss Ye has a point, the fate of mankind may really be destroyed suddenly, just like a person has no way of knowing if he will suddenly disappear one day.

As we walked out of the square, people and vehicles became scarce, and the night sky grew deeper and mysterious, burying endless speculations like an unknown fate.

"I think it's too scary." Ye Ruiyang scratched his head, "I'm a little hairy." ”

"You're really spoking me out." Miller frowned, "I just begged God to bless me in my heart, so that the whole world will be safe and sound before I die, and I don't want everyone to disappear all at once." ”

yes, we're all going to die someday. I will die, Ye Ruiyang will die, of course Mi Le will die, every grass and tree I see on the road will die, and the flying insect that just flew in front of me may die in the next second. But we should still be a long way from death, otherwise, we wouldn't be so worried that the world would be destroyed before we die.

"It's better for humans to shrink up, don't let the aliens find it. However, you can't hide if you want to. I really don't know what to do, in the universe, the whole human race is like a person, all are fragile. ”

I talked a lot about it today and listened to it a lot. I could feel something growing, but I couldn't describe it, so I could only look at the top of my head again. The night sky is deep and wonderful. There are so many things that we can't know, the only thing that is certain is that the three of us are walking side by side on the road, and the wind is flowing through us.

[1] 2001: A Space Odyssey is an American science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the same name by science fiction writer Arthur C. C. Clarke, released in 1968 and hailed as a "milestone in modern science fiction film technology". The film was nominated for four Academy Awards that year, including Best Art Director, Best Director, and Best Screenplay, and won the Best Visual Effects Award, and won the 1968 British Film Academy Best Cinematography, Best Sound, and Best Art Awards.