Lu Yinong enrolled in Beicheng Xingzhi Middle School in September, Xingzhi Middle School is divided into two branches, international and general high school, the international department learns the IB course, and the high school is mostly promoted to colleges and universities in the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia, while the general high school department teaches normally and participates in the domestic college entrance examination.

Lu Qing had excellent grades when she was studying, but due to the family environment, her dream of studying abroad has not been realized, and she is quite obsessed with it, and she wants to send Lu Yinong to study abroad after graduating from high school.

And Lu Yinong, in Lu Qing's expectation, withstood her invisible pressure, and finally chose the general high department. For no other reason, the tuition fee of the General High School is more than half cheaper than that of the International Department, and that's it.

Even so, Xingzhi's annual tuition and accommodation fees are also 200,000 yuan, which is destined to be either rich or expensive for every student around him.

Most of them went straight from junior high school and knew each other well. Lu Yinong silently avoided the crowd and listened to them talk about the international summer camp during the first high school holidays in the classroom, and the artistic and commercial nature of Andy Warhol's solo exhibition at the Tate Gallery.

Her hand clenched the card given by Lu Qingxin in the pocket of her coat, which contained a huge amount of money sufficient to meet all her material needs, but it could not make up for the serious gap in her vision and knowledge.

Once in Hang Minying, she deeply realized that the class gap came again, and she felt that she was an ugly duckling who strayed into Swan Lake, and she had closed her mouth in advance before she was discovered to be an alien.

Late October.

This year's cold spell came exceptionally early. The scorching sun swept through the cold snap, leaving only pale light, casting a warm and dull light on the skin, and the stratus clouds swept through the sky in the autumn wind, and the blue overhead was like an inverted sea.

Xingzhi stepped into autumn overnight, every path was paved with half-yellow leaves, the campus sweeper buzzed all day long, and only the white calves of the girls under the skirt of the school uniform were still chasing the tail of the fleeting summer.

The thin skin on the lips rose and fell, and no amount of lip balm was applied. Beicheng did a lot of work, especially in autumn, Lu Yinong has lived in the south for many years, has never been in such a dry environment, and ran two steps in physical education class and got a nosebleed.

When I arrived at the school doctor's office, there was no doctor there, and the nosebleeds had stopped. She wiped the remaining blood with a wet tissue in front of the phone camera, threw the reddened paper into the trash, and sat back in a chair with her head tilted, staring at the white roof in a daze.

The blue partition curtain swayed gently, the bed squeaked slightly, and the lazy and clear female voice was on the side.

"You have a nosebleed, don't look up, sister."

The other party spoke Mandarin casually, Cantonese was white, Lu Yinong barely listened to it, she looked over in confusion, the partition curtain had been opened, and the tall short-haired girl turned her back to put on her autumn school uniform jacket, and turned her head sideways to look at her while pulling the zipper.

The girl has a beautiful appearance, short hair, and her eyebrows are crooked at this time, and she is full of interest to tease her.

"I look at you so beautiful and bright-eyed. Freshman? ”

She looked a little older.

"Sammy Su. International Division, G12 Class 1. What about you? ”

Lu Yinong usually hardly greets people, but at the moment he is a little restrained: "Lu Yinong, the general high school, the first class of high school." ”

The other party smiled so happily: "Yi Nong? Your name is so amorous, so good. ”

The wall clock on the wall was ticking, and Su Shenzhen was still about to talk to her, when footsteps came from the corridor, and the female school doctor in a white coat pushed the door in her pocket with one hand.

"If it doesn't hurt, go back," she put one hand in her pocket and said unceremoniously to Su Shenzhen, "If you eat indiscriminately, don't hide from me." ”

Su Shenzhen grimaced behind her, and waved her hand at Lu Yinong: "I'm going to class, I'll play with you another day." ”

In social etiquette, another day is a polite and polite farewell, promising a tomorrow that will never come. However, this set of rules does not seem to apply to Su Shenzhen.

On Friday evening, the International Division organized an English debate tournament with Constant School exchange students, and all students in the school were free to attend the competition.

Lu Yinong didn't plan to participate, but Su Shenzhen, who didn't think about the fate of one person, was waiting for her directly at the door of the classroom after school.

Lu Yinong is used to being alone in Xingzhi, and when he received an invitation on campus for the first time, he was flattered to call his aunt and pushed him to the dinner at his uncle's old house.

This is the first time Lu Qing visited her mother-in-law, it doesn't matter if there is Lu Yinong, she asked two more words uneasily, knowing that she was staying in school to watch the debate and didn't say anything, let Lu Yinong not be too late, and call the driver after it was over.

She should all come down.

Su Shenzhen swiped her card and took her into the International Building, which is the most beautiful place in the school, with an ochre-red exterior wall with an olive-green roof, surrounded by a large area of manicured lawn, an ivory-white sculpture fountain in front of the gate, and the entrance is a whole relief wall, and the regular panes cast a cut shadow.

Turn left on the first floor and walk to the brightly lit and bright auditorium, there is still more than an hour before the game, and people coming and going on the stage are making final preparations.

The two sat side by side in the front row, eating the rice balls bought in the cafeteria, Su Shenzhen took out a thermos flask from her schoolbag and put it on the table, divided a cup with a disposable paper cup, and handed it to her.

"Auntie's fire-lowering tea cures heat and prevents nosebleeds."

Someone on the stage saw her with sharp eyes, shouted at her, and beckoned: "Su Shenzhen!" Let's mix the microphone! ”

"Come," she patted Lu Yinong on the shoulder, "I'll go and help, it's not enough to add it myself." ”

She had slender hands and feet, and she had already stepped onto the stage in a few steps, picked up a few suspected problematic mics, and opened them one by one for testing. His eyes swept down, and when he saw Lu Yinong, he smiled at her again.

The problem was quickly solved, and the silent microphones were replaced in time. After Su Shenzhen came down, she explained to her that the CAS course in the IB system requires participation in extracurricular activities, and the students of the International Department play various interest clubs, and everyone is familiar with each other.

When the time for the competition came, the host on the stage had already begun to explain the competition system and introduce the personnel.

Lu Yinong held the water cup, and there was borneol bitter chrysanthemum in the fire tea, which was slightly bitter in the mouth, and it was sweet for a long time. At first, I didn't think it was delicious, but I was addicted to two more sips.

"Radio station?" She was really curious, and she couldn't think of Su Shenzhen's appearance as a campus broadcaster.

Su Shenzhen didn't think it was upset, and explained with a smile: "I don't speak Mandarin well, and most of the time I only read English manuscripts. But...... Entering the radio station is to satisfy my selfishness! ”

"What?"

"I've taken up all the music time in the evening. Which school didn't sing Eason's Mt. Fuji in the first two years? ”

The debate had not yet begun, and their focus had been crooked, so Su Shenzhen divided a wireless earphone from her and hid it in her hair. On stage, there are swords and-for-tat, and what falls on the ears is the lingering poetry of Cantonese lyrics.

They have heard "Spring and Autumn", "Angkor Wat", "□□", and "Next Year Today", and when they get to "Under Mount Fuji", the sentence "Who can let Mount Fuji be private with love", Su Shenzhen suddenly said next to him: "I have heard it several times, and my scalp is numb." ”

She looked at the road and half-knew and half-understood, and her eyes were pure.

"The child is not easy to understand," her smile was faint, "You can only be an adult if you endure hardships." ”

It was already 9 o'clock in the evening when I got home after the debate tournament, and my aunt had not returned.

Lu Yinong went back to the room, took a shower, her hair was halfway blown, half wet and not dry hanging on her shoulders, the window of the bathroom blew in a cool breeze, the cold invaded the warm space for a moment, she was still wearing a nightdress, half of her calves were exposed, she walked over and closed the window, and saw that the light was still on in the flower room directly below.

Zhangjia Villa is located on the shore of Changming Lake in Jinghua District, Beicheng, backed by Xique Mountain, the villa has a swimming pool and a golf course in the community.

The glass flower room in the villa is her favorite place to stay. The northern city is bleak and yellow at any time, but here is always full of green. A variety of herbaceous shrubs and ferns thrive.

When she arrives in early summer, the flower room is even more lively with all kinds of unknown flowers and plants.

The teacher Gao who specializes in nursing and cultivating in the villa introduced her one by one, chamomile, passionflower, mallow, pansy, caryophyllus, double-petaled dwarf cow, triangular plum, Ji Xiaoguang and tiger thorn plum.

She listened attentively and talked with interest at the dinner table, and Zhang Peiming quipped to Lu Qing: "This is a future botanist." ”

My aunt brushed it off disapprovingly: "If she moves the knife to go up the mountains and to the sea, she may not have suffered this hardship." I didn't think about how deep she read and what a female doctor she was. ”

Lu Yinong heard the words and was silent.

Since the beginning of high school, she has spent less time playing in the flower room, and most of the time she comes on weekends and can spend a day in it with a book in her arms.

Her heart moved slightly, thinking that it was a new plant in the flower room, and she ran downstairs happily with a soft drag, and as soon as she entered the door, she was sucked into the eyes by the glass pet tank in the front.

The pet tank is simple to landscaping, with clay as the base, a few centimeters of gravel and mud and sand, natural logs are placed at random, and tiger pills and cacti are planted in the tank. An additional night light is lit in the tank, and a red number on the side indicates the humidity and temperature in the tank.

She approached in surprise, leaning on the glass, and the two little ones with black flowers and big tails on a yellow background were lying in the corner, their eyes blinking slowly, looking at her through the glass.

Lu Yinong is not afraid, she is very bold at some moments, and has a fearless desire to explore nature.

"Wow......" she swore she had only uttered.

"It's noisy."

She looked back in amazement, and the slender figure sat up slowly on the bench behind her, half of her body hidden in the shadow of the blind spot of the light, and the thin blanket on her body could not cover the long legs that had nowhere to be placed, and he only looked at her with cold eyes.

"I'm sorry," she quickly apologized as she came back to her senses, "Is it Brother Ronghui?" ”

His brow furrowed even more: "Am I familiar with you?" Don't call me that. ”