our secret base

Chapter 2 The Strange Classmate at the Back Desk

Yan Jingxing and his uncle lived in a three-story courtyard.This used to be the home of the grandparents. After the two old people passed away, they were handed over to the two sons to take care of them.In addition to the main building, there is a room outside the door for parking and storing sundries.

There are two tall orange trees planted in the yard.The branches and leaves are luxuriant, the shade is dense, and the bottom of the tree is a good place to enjoy the shade.

Whenever the wind blows through the crown of the tree, the layers of leaves collide and rub against each other, and there will be a "sand" echo like waves hitting the coast.

Uncle said that in autumn, the oranges will be ripe.The fruit from these two trees could fill three full baskets, so much that they couldn't finish it until their teeth ached, and gave points to the neighbors.

He also said that when he was a child, the thing he looked forward to most throughout the year was the fruiting of the orange tree in the yard.The sweet taste still makes his mouth water when he thinks about it.

Uncle's words were mixed with his childhood memories, and he spoke vividly, which made Yan Jingxing have a lot of expectations.

However, the first thing the uncle and nephew had to do was to clean the house.

The two brothers of the Yan family went to the city early, and the house has been left unattended since the old man passed away. It has almost become an abandoned and empty house. A lot of dust.

First, move out all the unused sundries in the living room, kitchen, and two bedrooms that are most commonly used, sweep the floor and dust, mop and decontaminate, and then wipe the rest of the place with a bucket and rag;
Then take out the old sheets, quilt covers and damp furniture to bask in the sun, throw away all the moldy ones, make a list of things that need to be repurchased, and go to the only supermarket in the town to buy them;

The last thing is to pack the luggage, place the daily necessities, and lay a new quilt and pillow on the bed...

The two uncles and nephews worked together and worked hard for two days and one night. On the first night, they went back to the hotel in town to spend it. It was not until the second night that they finally settled in their new home.

After Yan Jingxing took a shower and changed his clothes, he staggered and fell on the bed from exhaustion.Then he heard his uncle shouting outside the door:

"By the way, I almost forgot to tell you that you are going to report at school tomorrow."

"tomorrow?!"

Yan Jingxing complained loudly.

"Didn't you just finish sorting things out, can't you rest for two days?"

"Tomorrow is Monday. You are a transfer student and you came in the middle of the semester. You have to keep up with the rhythm of the course as soon as possible."

"I don't want to go to school..."

"Okay, I've set the alarm clock in the living room. Remember to get up early, don't make me rush every time."

Ugh……

The boy buried his face deep in the pillow, not wanting to face reality.

……

The next day, his uncle drove him to school together.

Yan Jingxing was listless when he was in the car, but when he got out of the car, he immediately cheered up and adjusted his expression.

Dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, and he still listened to his uncle's words "to make a good impression in front of new classmates and new teachers".

Not to mention anything else, just the self-esteem of an adolescent boy is enough to drive him to face the first time seriously.

Yan Yongzhi looked at his nephew with a sullen and serious expression, and found it a little funny.He patted Yan Jingxing's shoulder.

"I'll go to the Academic Affairs Office first. Can you find the office by yourself?"

"……certainly."

The uncle pulled out the key neatly and left.With his schoolbag on his back, he looked at the signboard of "Baiyue Town Experimental Middle School" in front of the school gate, feeling uneasy.

While trying to cheer himself up, he followed the instructions of the doorman and walked up the stairs to find the office of the second grade.

"Is Teacher Gao there?"

"Oh, here we come. Are you Yan Jingxing?"

A middle-aged female teacher stood up from her seat.Tiredness accumulated on her face, and her dark circles were heavy, as if she hadn't rested for a long time.

"Ah."

"After the flag-raising ceremony, I'll take you to class one and get to know the classmates. Is that okay?"

"it is good."

Yan Jingxing grabbed the strap of his schoolbag and nodded.

*
It seems that every city will have such a school called Experimental Middle School, and in some places, it will be divided into one, two, three, four, and five, but in a small place like Baiyue Town, there is naturally only one.

From the end of the flag-raising ceremony to the short break at the beginning of the first class, the teacher in charge of the class has not yet come, and every class in the corridor is noisy.Chatting and laughing at the front table and the back table, fighting with each other at the same table, or simply leaving the seat to chat with friends.

The scorching sun made the window glass transparent and whitish, and the wet marble floor just dragged by the day-on-duty students shone brightly.

In front of the teaching building stood two tall magnolias, the emerald green branches and leaves swaying gently in the warm wind, and the shadows of the leaves falling on the corner of the wall covered the corner of the blackboard newspaper with chalked villains, and there was a warm feeling floating in the air Warm atmosphere.

Until the bell rang, the head teacher walked to the door of the classroom.She put on a frowning expression that was so familiar to her classmates that she could no longer be familiar with it, and beckoned everyone to return to their seats.

"I can hear your voices from Class [-], it's almost a quarrel!"

After all the students were seated, the class teacher stepped onto the podium.She didn't ask everyone to take out the Chinese textbooks immediately, but looked outside the classroom, as if waiting for someone to come in.

The students in the seats were all curious.Then, a boy they had never seen walked in.

"Introduce yourself."

"Hi everyone, I'm Yan Jingxing. I just moved here from Jinjiang City recently. Yan is the swallow of a swallow, and Jingxing is the word 'Mountains look up, Jing Xing stops' in the Book of Songs..."

Yan Jingxing picked up the chalk and wrote his name on the blackboard. After turning around, he saw all the students in the class for the first time.

Of course, it was the first time to meet each other, and everyone's faces were unfamiliar, so his eyes only swept across them, and it was impossible to remember them all in one go.until--

"...!"

Yan Jingxing's eyes widened in surprise.

In the last row, he saw a familiar figure.

She occupied a table by herself, her long hair covering most of her face.

He rubbed his eyes, thinking he was wrong.

——It was the girl in a swimsuit I met near the rest stop that day.

At that time, she jumped into the sea and disappeared. Yan Jingxing thought that he would never see this person again, and felt regretful.

It turns out that she is not a mermaid, but a junior high school student like me...

No, of course it is.Yan Jingxing complained to himself in his heart.He just didn't expect that the two would meet again so soon, and they even happened to study in the same school and class.

The girl sitting in the back row seemed to have noticed him at the same time. She first raised her head to look at the podium, showing a surprised and bewildered expression, and then immediately lowered her head.

"Jing Xing, what's wrong with you?"

"Ah, nothing..."

Yan Jingxing, whose thoughts were disturbed by the unexpected reunion, didn't have the time to say more, after saying a few words casually, he went down amidst the applause of his classmates.

"Just sit next to Yu Heyue. Heyue, remember to lend your textbooks to new classmates when you have class later."

"Hey, good teacher."

Yan Jingxing sat down beside the smiling girl.

……

The first class after that is mathematics.

Half of Yan Jingxing's mind was on the lessons, and the other half was on the girl in the last row.

After he confirmed that he could keep up with the lessons here, while he was relieved, all the rest of his attention was on the girl.

The deskmate was quite interested in him, and kept quietly asking him where he was from, and about city life. Yan Jingxing casually said a few words, and waited until the bell rang for the end of get out of class. He immediately got up and walked to the back.

...doesn't it seem a bit too impatient?

But it's nothing, after all, he is really curious about her and has many questions to ask.

But what Yan Jingxing didn't expect was——

The long, slightly curly bangs blocked the girl's face, making it difficult to see his expression clearly.The moment she noticed Yan Jingxing approaching, she jumped up like a frightened rabbit and ran to another place.

"Hey, wait..."

Before he had time to call out to her, the girl's back had disappeared through the back door of the classroom, leaving him with a bewildered expression.

……

How should I put it, it's a bit different from my own impression.

Yan Jingxing returned to the edge of his seat, folded his arms and began to meditate.

Although I've only met him once, the youthful vitality of the other party is really impressive, and it's definitely not a fake.

However, in school, she gave people a feeling of taciturnity...

And, why are you avoiding me?
Some students noticed the little embarrassment just happened, and asked with a smile:

"Are you here to find Ji Chunzao? Did you know her before?"

Ji Chunzao... so her name was so, Yan Jingxing remembered it silently, nodded and replied.

"I saw her on the road here, and I met her once, so it's not considered acquaintance. But was she avoiding me just now?"

"How should I put it, don't worry about it, she is quite... How should I put it, it's a bit weird."

After hearing the name "Ji Chunzao", people at the same table and those at the front and back tables also came to join in the fun.

"Others think she's out of her mind."

"It's not that exaggerated, is it? She usually takes classes and exams well."

"That's because you haven't been in contact with Ji Chunzao before. She was very enthusiastic at first, but every day I heard her talk about 'water monsters', 'aliens', 'UFO', etc. Later, everyone felt annoyed and started talking to her. Keeping a distance and not talking to her anymore, she gradually became silent."

Yan Jingxing listened to the students chatting enthusiastically, and realized that Ji Chunzao seemed to be a person who was respected and kept at a distance in the class of the second year and the first class.

Even Yan Jingxing, who is not familiar with her, can feel that the girl has a maverick temperament; however, this also makes her the focus of attention in a certain sense, which is why she appears to be chatty. Speaking of "Ji Chunzao", everyone has something to say.

While talking, everyone began to care about the new classmates again, and Yan Jingxing was obviously not a maverick, he responded to the questions with a smile, and wrote down their names one by one.

After joining a new group, if you want to truly integrate into it, you often need an opportunity, and that is now.

However, when chatting with other people in full swing, Yan Jingxing's gaze would occasionally be unable to help but glance at the empty seat.

*
There are two main buildings in Baiquan Town Experimental Middle School, one is the teaching building where the classrooms and teaching offices are located, and it is noisy during the breaks; the other is the office for other functions, as well as the laboratory and library, which is usually quiet .

The stairs leading to the roof of this building are often unlocked.After Ji Chunzao ran out of the classroom, he walked all the way to the roof.

When passing through the office building, the girl still walked a little sneakily; but when she arrived at the destination, she had already raised her chest, the corners of her mouth slightly raised, and made a circle around the water tower with ease.

There, there is a three-sided "enclosed wall" specially built with bricks. Inside the wall are mats made of corrugated paper, plastic bags for garbage, stacked discarded newspapers, umbrellas and raincoats.

The most eye-catching thing is that there is a neat stack of magazines and books. Looking at the titles above, they are all about UFOs, about aliens, about the Loch Ness Monster and Shennongjia Savages, etc., as well as various versions "Unsolved Mysteries of the World".

In this unnoticed corner of the campus, Ji Chunzao set up a small, temporary "secret base", which belongs to her alone.

The long-haired girl sat down by the wall, picked up a copy of "Flying Saucer Exploration" and began to read it.

At this moment, in this place where she was alone, Ji Chunzao seemed to relax, her sitting posture and expression became lazy.

The golden sunlight is like light feathers, passing through the gaps between the stainless steel bars next to the water tower, falling on the blue and white middle school uniform, on the sports shoes that have been washed a little whitish, and on the yellowed pages of the book...

When it quietly landed on the bright face of a 14-year-old girl, Na Shengxue's skin was as translucent as it was glowing.

The magazine in Ji Chunzao's hand seemed to have been turned over countless times, and the title page was all degummed, but she still read it with gusto.

"Ah, this UFO...! It's very similar to the one I saw in my dream..."

She looked at it, and suddenly pointed to an illustration and exclaimed, as if she had discovered a detail that she hadn't noticed before, and she was talking to herself that no one could understand.

It's a pity that everything in the dream is black and white, and it's impossible to distinguish colors at all, the girl thought a little regretfully.

The class bell rang, but Ji Chunzao didn't get up.

She knew that the next class was an activity class, so it didn't matter if she didn't have to go back to the classroom.

Anyway, even if she stays in the classroom, she has nothing to do. She just sits in a corner alone in a daze, watching others laughing and laughing...

"Yo, isn't this "Flying Saucer Exploration"?"

A voice suddenly sounded from behind her.

"Wow!"

This sudden conversation scared Ji Chunzao out of his wits, and he froze there.

It wasn't until she sensed the footsteps approaching that she turned her neck tremblingly like a robot.

What came into view was the face of the transfer student.

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