rose believer

Chapter 4 Rose - Stud Earrings
Going back to the origin, all stories begin with an encounter.

When did they first meet?
When asking Jiang Limei and Ren Yu the same question, they would have different answers.Ren Yu remembered clearly that it was the opening ceremony of the sophomore year of high school, and he spoke on stage as a student representative.

All the teachers who have taught Ren Yu say this about Ren Yu:

Silent and introverted, serious in studying, the only shortcoming is that he is too stubborn, not like a young man, like a little old man.

When I was young, I thought too much.

The speech was written by Ren Yu half a month in advance. It was still on summer vacation at that time. He took it to the home of the Chinese teacher, asked the teacher to help polish it, and then recited it.

Now that he is fluent in drafting, Ren Yu is still worried. The opening ceremony starts at 06 o'clock, and he waits at the side of the main/stage of the playground at 30:[-], reciting the manuscript silently, over and over again, for fear of making any mistakes.

Ancheng is located in the Northeast, early in the autumn, there was another heavy rain the first night, and the temperature in the whole city dropped drastically, washing away the last remaining heat of summer, and the chill in the early morning was threatening.Ren Yu wore the autumn school uniform of Ancheng No. [-] Middle School, which was thin and felt a little cold. The first thing he worried about was not a cold, but whether his teeth would chatter and he could not speak clearly when he came on stage.

At seven o'clock, more and more students entered the school, first went to the classroom to put away their schoolbags, and then gathered in the playground.

The students in the three grades are very different from each other, which can be seen from their appearance.The one who slumped his head and yawned was the third year of senior high school, and the freshmen in the first year of high school had not yet been issued school uniforms, and they were dressed in all kinds of clothes.The rest is the second year of high school, playing and laughing, with endless energy.

Ren Yu hid in the secret place behind the dais, covered his ears and recited the manuscript over and over again. He didn't know how many times he had recited it. Suddenly, he heard someone calling him:

"Student, classmate."

Ren Yu heard it and turned around in surprise.

"I'm here, here."

The rostrum was on the side of the playground, behind the fence, and a girl stood outside the fence, waving wildly at him.

"Hey, what are you doing? I called you many times but you couldn't hear me."

The girl wore a high ponytail, revealing a smooth forehead, a pair of fox eyes curved and agile, she spoke complainingly, but her face was smiling. The early morning sun shone on her face and cut fine shadows. The small stud earrings are dazzling.

"Student, please do me a favor."

Ren Yu looked away from her earlobe.

"Over there, there are a lot of bricks, can you help me move some, it's very simple, just stack them up, let me put my feet up."

The girl pointed to the sand pile inside the fence, which was left by the summer workers repairing the playground, and there were some bricks and stones.

"Our grade director is arresting people at the school gate."

"Catch what?" Ren Yu asked subconsciously.

"...Disheveled. We haven't issued school uniforms yet, so I just wear them casually, but who knew that the school rules of Ninth High School are so perverted that they don't allow you to wear skirts?"

The girl's tone was coquettish, without any hostility.

Ren Yu followed her words and looked at her. She was wearing a red hooded sweater with a Mickey head pattern on her chest, a black pleated skirt with bare legs, and white Converse sneakers.

Ren Yu doesn't understand girls' fashion, but it doesn't mean they don't have aesthetics. He can tell that it should be a very popular dress now.

Before he could speak, the girl spoke again, begging in a sweet voice: "The railing is too high, I have to step up my feet before I dare to jump, classmate, please, can you help me move it? I won’t be able to handle more.”

The loudspeaker behind him began to urge the students to gather on the playground quickly.

Ren Yu didn't hesitate any longer. Under the command of the girl, he went back and forth several times, arranging the bricks in several layers and stacking them high.He was still checking whether the prison was secure, and the girl had already thrown her schoolbag over, making a gesture to climb the fence.

"Turn around, I'm wearing a skirt."

Ren Yu's face became hot, and he turned around hastily, not forgetting to remind: "It may be unstable, so be careful."

The girl moved neatly, climbed to the top in twos and threes, jumped down from the sharp fence before she finished speaking, and patted Ren Yu on the shoulder: "Okay, okay, come down."

Ren Yu turned around and was swept up to her neck by her ponytail.

The girl picked up her schoolbag neatly, and dusted off the dust: "School has just started, and the head teacher hasn't recognized everyone yet. There is no one in the classroom at the moment, and I will avoid attending the ceremony in the classroom. It's okay to be missing me. "

Under Ren Yu's gaze, she carried her schoolbag on her back and took a sneak peek at the school gate. The grade director had already caught a group of students wearing skirts and ripped jeans, and they were taking names.

"Thank you classmate for saving my life."

"Wait a minute!" Ren Yu didn't know what he was doing wrong, so he stopped the girl and pointed to his ear: "The school doesn't allow you to wear that either."

The girl froze for a moment, touched the small stud on her earlobe, and smiled:
"Forget it, just take it off."

The red figure ran away quickly, passing through a group of boring blue and white school uniforms, skirts fluttered in the crowd, and schoolbags swayed with the ponytails.

Ren Yu kept looking at that figure until he disappeared into the first grade teaching building, then he came back to his senses and put the bricks back to their original positions one by one.

The opening ceremony that day was a great success.

Ren Yu's unscripted speech, as the first in the city's unified examination at the end of last semester, received a lot of praise and applause.He stepped off the stage, stood back in the class line, lowered his head and adjusted his glasses.

"Stand up straight, don't always bow your head." Teacher Ji, the class teacher, patted Ren Yu on the back: "Why do you always look unconfident?"

Ren Yu straightened his back.

It's not that he lacks confidence, it's just that he always feels cramped when standing in the eyes of others.A person with a sensitive personality will have a lot more troubles than others, and he always unconsciously explores the temperature in other people's eyes.

Fear of being ignored, and fear of being taken too seriously.

It was as if there were two ends of the scale, and either side would make him uneasy.

Ren Yu thought of those clear eyes, he stood comfortably in those eyes, because when she looked at you, she just looked at you seriously, it was transparent and clear under the sun.

He looked in the direction of the first grade teaching building, and regrets came out of nowhere.

I don't know if there is a broadcast of the ceremony on the speakers in the classroom.

I don't know if she heard his name.

(End of this chapter)