Chi Tang remembered that she had friends before, both in elementary school and junior high school. But friends in school were easily met and easily forgotten. It may be a division of classes, or even a change of seats, and other friends can chat with you. The former friend was gone. It was not that there was a conflict or a quarrel, it was just that you slowly stopped talking to each other.
Maybe she and You Yu will do the same in the future.
Chi Tang had always felt that she and You Yu were different people, that You Yu was a different person from other students their age. You Yu knew how to move forward, and found her direction early, which made people envious.
But she was the kind of person who didn’t know what she was going to do. She was pushed into the crowd by a group of people who also didn’t know where to go. She could only walk along with people, just like a kite, swayed with no direction.
“Chi Tang…Chi Tang!” She didn’t know when the sound of chalk rubbing against the blackboard stopped. The math teacher was glaring at her.
Someone in the classroom couldn’t hold back their laughter, and the mathematics teacher shot the classroom a glare indiscriminately again, “You don’t know where to go! Look at your monthly exam results!”
Being dissed by the teacher was daily life for students. It was impossible to be ashamed. She lowered her head just because she didn’t want to look at the teacher and was called to answer questions.
After the teacher preached for three minutes, the class was almost over, so the math teacher delayed the class to make up the time and also charged extra interest. When he finally left with the lesson plan textbook, the students could only show anxious faces and rushed to the toilet, which delayed the class time for the next class, and the next English teacher was not easy to talk to.
During the break time, Chi Tang bumped her deskmate and said, “It’s not good to be at the same table with you.”
You Yu: “Huh?”
Chi Tang: “The teacher likes to ask you questions, and he also likes to pay attention to this side. I am right next to you. As soon as I was absent-minded, I was called out several times.”
You Yu hummed again, turned over a notebook, and showed her a certain page, “Seven times.”
Chi Tang was taken aback by her behavior of remembering grudges like this, “Why do you remember this?”
You Yu: “It’s memorized.”
Chi Tang didn’t quite believe it, she felt that You Yu was deliberately reminding her to study seriously.
However, the students were uncontrollable in class, especially that spring, when flowers were blooming outside, and the sun jumped in from the window. The temperature was good, and the teacher’s voice on the podium was like a lullaby. In the classroom, almost half of the students couldn’t help being drowsy and had difficulty concentrating.
Among them, Chi Tang was especially unlucky because she was at the same table as You Yu and was always noticed by the teacher, so the half straight character on the spare workbook slowly became two straight characters.
Chi Tang noticed You Yu’s movements. You Yu was originally taking notes. Hearing the teacher call her name, she skillfully and smoothly added a stroke to the straight character and then turned back to continue taking notes.
Chi Tang: “…”
Chi Tang stretched out two fingers, dragged You Yu’s notebook to the junction of the two desks, blacked out the two straight characters with a pen, and then watched You Yu while pushing the notebook back to her next.
“Don’t remember it!”
“Ok.”
The chemistry teacher on the podium glanced down, and he could see the students in the back row sleeping on the desks full of textbooks; others were holding the books upright with their eyes rolling, which were covered by books. Others were reading a novel; the bolder one was even still eating, thinking that he would not find it, lowered his head to take a bite, then quickly raised his head pretending to be fine, and then lowered his head to take a bite after a while. Moving, like a silly tortoise with a probe.
More people talked and made small movements.
They thought he couldn’t see with glasses, but he could see clearly, but this group of hairy monkeys was not the first group of hairy monkeys he had taught. Every group of hairy monkeys liked to scratch their ears and cheeks.
The chemistry teacher turned his eyes to the student he was most optimistic about. The good student who was never distracted in class. She was still laughing while looking at her deskmate who was writing in her notebook.
The student You Yu was obedient but the child was a bit withdrawn. Some of the teachers sometimes thought that the child’s condition was not very good and that she didn’t have the liveliness that a child of her age should have.
He was a little relieved in his heart and planned to miss it.
Turning his head to write on the blackboard, the chalk and blackboard made two sharp creaks. After deliberately making this alarm-like sound, the chemistry teacher turned around again and was satisfied that many distracted hairy monkeys were straightened.
“Listen to the class seriously,” he said.
April, Qingming Festival
“Tomorrow at eight o’clock in the morning, you will gather in the class on time. You can’t be late, do you hear?”
“Listen–it’s–” the students responded with a long voice.
The Lao Fang said: “In this martyr’s tomb-sweeping activity, you will write a composition after returning, did you hear me?”
“We heard–” The sparse response this time was not so happy.
They weren’t happy to do homework.
In the early morning of the next day, the class was extremely lively. The grave-sweeping activity took up Saturday’s time. The students were not required to wear school uniforms, so everyone wore their clothes, and the girls cared about it. They were clean and tidy and pleasing to the eye while many boys seemed to have just gotten up from the bed.
Those who had secret crushes took advantage of this opportunity to dress up well and put on nice braids. They looked very different from usual, especially Luo Zhengli who wore a skirt, and when she arrived in the classroom, she and Wang Jiao Yang flirted. They were booed by a few boys.
There were many small groups in the whole class, who got together in twos and threes.
Chi Tang and You Yu sat in their seats, not as noisy as the others. Chi Tang didn’t rest well last night, so she was on her phone with an irritable expression.
She was wearing beige pants, a white T-shirt, a mint green short coat, white sneakers, and a hat. She looked fresh. She looked good in the first place and without an ugly school uniform, she looked even more beautiful. The girls in the front row and Hei Pi who were several seats apart couldn’t help but look at her, but they looked at her differently.
Compared to her, her deskmate looked greyish, with little whitish jeans, a round neck T-shirt, all old clothes, and a pair of nondescript rubber shoes on her feet. However, she was the only one in the classroom who was still studying at this time.
The teacher walked in on time, asked the class leader to call the name, and then asked Hei Pi to carry a basket of chrysanthemums.
“I bought it from the class fee, and each student will get one after we get off the bus.” The class teacher, Lao Fang, elaborated on the day’s arrangements and urged everyone to go downstairs to take the bus. They would take the bus to the tomb of the martyrs for two hours today.
Chi Tang suffered from motion sickness, so she didn’t say anything when she got in the car, leaning on her seat and closing her eyes to rest, but the students in the car got noisy and keep going all the way.
When it was about to arrive, Lao Fang said the precautions again, and finally said: “Remember our gathering time, everyone can watch the time. After presenting the flowers, we will move freely around and gather at three in the afternoon.”
While listening, You Yu paid attention to Chi Tang’s expression to see if she wanted to vomit.
At this moment, Chi Tang suddenly opened his eyes, her brows were still slightly twisted, and she took off the watch in her hand and placed it in front of You Yu, “I’ll lend it to you so that you can see the time.”
Most of the classmates brought mobile phones, but You Yu did not have mobile phones.
Chi Tang remembered that she had friends before, both in elementary school and junior high school. But friends in school were easily met and easily forgotten. It may be a division of classes, or even a change of seats, and other friends can chat with you. The former friend was gone. It was not that there was a conflict or a quarrel, it was just that you slowly stopped talking to each other.
Maybe she and You Yu will do the same in the future.
Chi Tang had always felt that she and You Yu were different people, that You Yu was a different person from other students their age. You Yu knew how to move forward, and found her direction early, which made people envious.
But she was the kind of person who didn’t know what she was going to do. She was pushed into the crowd by a group of people who also didn’t know where to go. She could only walk along with people, just like a kite, swayed with no direction.
“Chi Tang…Chi Tang!” She didn’t know when the sound of chalk rubbing against the blackboard stopped. The math teacher was glaring at her.
Someone in the classroom couldn’t hold back their laughter, and the mathematics teacher shot the classroom a glare indiscriminately again, “You don’t know where to go! Look at your monthly exam results!”
Being dissed by the teacher was daily life for students. It was impossible to be ashamed. She lowered her head just because she didn’t want to look at the teacher and was called to answer questions.
After the teacher preached for three minutes, the class was almost over, so the math teacher delayed the class to make up the time and also charged extra interest. When he finally left with the lesson plan textbook, the students could only show anxious faces and rushed to the toilet, which delayed the class time for the next class, and the next English teacher was not easy to talk to.
During the break time, Chi Tang bumped her deskmate and said, “It’s not good to be at the same table with you.”
You Yu: “Huh?”
Chi Tang: “The teacher likes to ask you questions, and he also likes to pay attention to this side. I am right next to you. As soon as I was absent-minded, I was called out several times.”
You Yu hummed again, turned over a notebook, and showed her a certain page, “Seven times.”
Chi Tang was taken aback by her behavior of remembering grudges like this, “Why do you remember this?”
You Yu: “It’s memorized.”
Chi Tang didn’t quite believe it, she felt that You Yu was deliberately reminding her to study seriously.
However, the students were uncontrollable in class, especially that spring, when flowers were blooming outside, and the sun jumped in from the window. The temperature was good, and the teacher’s voice on the podium was like a lullaby. In the classroom, almost half of the students couldn’t help being drowsy and had difficulty concentrating.
Among them, Chi Tang was especially unlucky because she was at the same table as You Yu and was always noticed by the teacher, so the half straight character on the spare workbook slowly became two straight characters.
Chi Tang noticed You Yu’s movements. You Yu was originally taking notes. Hearing the teacher call her name, she skillfully and smoothly added a stroke to the straight character and then turned back to continue taking notes.
Chi Tang: “…”
Chi Tang stretched out two fingers, dragged You Yu’s notebook to the junction of the two desks, blacked out the two straight characters with a pen, and then watched You Yu while pushing the notebook back to her next.
“Don’t remember it!”
“Ok.”
The chemistry teacher on the podium glanced down, and he could see the students in the back row sleeping on the desks full of textbooks; others were holding the books upright with their eyes rolling, which were covered by books. Others were reading a novel; the bolder one was even still eating, thinking that he would not find it, lowered his head to take a bite, then quickly raised his head pretending to be fine, and then lowered his head to take a bite after a while. Moving, like a silly tortoise with a probe.
More people talked and made small movements.
They thought he couldn’t see with glasses, but he could see clearly, but this group of hairy monkeys was not the first group of hairy monkeys he had taught. Every group of hairy monkeys liked to scratch their ears and cheeks.
The chemistry teacher turned his eyes to the student he was most optimistic about. The good student who was never distracted in class. She was still laughing while looking at her deskmate who was writing in her notebook.
The student You Yu was obedient but the child was a bit withdrawn. Some of the teachers sometimes thought that the child’s condition was not very good and that she didn’t have the liveliness that a child of her age should have.
He was a little relieved in his heart and planned to miss it.
Turning his head to write on the blackboard, the chalk and blackboard made two sharp creaks. After deliberately making this alarm-like sound, the chemistry teacher turned around again and was satisfied that many distracted hairy monkeys were straightened.
“Listen to the class seriously,” he said.
April, Qingming Festival
“Tomorrow at eight o’clock in the morning, you will gather in the class on time. You can’t be late, do you hear?”
“Listen–it’s–” the students responded with a long voice.
The Lao Fang said: “In this martyr’s tomb-sweeping activity, you will write a composition after returning, did you hear me?”
“We heard–” The sparse response this time was not so happy.
They weren’t happy to do homework.
In the early morning of the next day, the class was extremely lively. The grave-sweeping activity took up Saturday’s time. The students were not required to wear school uniforms, so everyone wore their clothes, and the girls cared about it. They were clean and tidy and pleasing to the eye while many boys seemed to have just gotten up from the bed.
Those who had secret crushes took advantage of this opportunity to dress up well and put on nice braids. They looked very different from usual, especially Luo Zhengli who wore a skirt, and when she arrived in the classroom, she and Wang Jiao Yang flirted. They were booed by a few boys.
There were many small groups in the whole class, who got together in twos and threes.
Chi Tang and You Yu sat in their seats, not as noisy as the others. Chi Tang didn’t rest well last night, so she was on her phone with an irritable expression.
She was wearing beige pants, a white T-shirt, a mint green short coat, white sneakers, and a hat. She looked fresh. She looked good in the first place and without an ugly school uniform, she looked even more beautiful. The girls in the front row and Hei Pi who were several seats apart couldn’t help but look at her, but they looked at her differently.
Compared to her, her deskmate looked greyish, with little whitish jeans, a round neck T-shirt, all old clothes, and a pair of nondescript rubber shoes on her feet. However, she was the only one in the classroom who was still studying at this time.
The teacher walked in on time, asked the class leader to call the name, and then asked Hei Pi to carry a basket of chrysanthemums.
“I bought it from the class fee, and each student will get one after we get off the bus.” The class teacher, Lao Fang, elaborated on the day’s arrangements and urged everyone to go downstairs to take the bus. They would take the bus to the tomb of the martyrs for two hours today.
Chi Tang suffered from motion sickness, so she didn’t say anything when she got in the car, leaning on her seat and closing her eyes to rest, but the students in the car got noisy and keep going all the way.
When it was about to arrive, Lao Fang said the precautions again, and finally said: “Remember our gathering time, everyone can watch the time. After presenting the flowers, we will move freely around and gather at three in the afternoon.”
While listening, You Yu paid attention to Chi Tang’s expression to see if she wanted to vomit.
At this moment, Chi Tang suddenly opened his eyes, her brows were still slightly twisted, and she took off the watch in her hand and placed it in front of You Yu, “I’ll lend it to you so that you can see the time.”
Most of the classmates brought mobile phones, but You Yu did not have mobile phones.
