Xinyiwu: Originally

Chapter 5 The Man in the Back Row
On the morning of the first day of senior year in high school, Su Yunjin walked into the new classroom alone.She was assigned to the science (four) class. At a glance, the classroom was almost full, but there were few familiar faces, and most of them were boys.The original class was completely disrupted and reorganized. She didn't have any particularly close classmates before. She stood near the podium for a while, and the feeling of being at a loss when facing a strange environment when she first transferred a year ago seems to have returned.

Since it was too late to arrange seats, the students who arrived first also found places to sit down at will, chatting in twos and threes.In the process of looking for a vacant seat, Su Yunjin saw Meng Xue, who was in her class before, leaning against a desk and chatting and laughing familiarly with several boys around her, like a little red in a green bush.Meng Xue was the class leader in their old class, and she was very active, but Su Yunjin didn't know her very well, so she didn't say a few words.When passing by, Meng Xue saw her and waved her hand in greeting.

"I didn't expect you to choose science as well. I heard that we were the only girls in our class who were assigned to science (four)."

Su Yunjin didn't say anything, but smiled at her, thinking that she had wasted time making the beds in the dormitory, and now there were not even a few vacant seats left in the classroom, so she had to look around while walking.

Meng Xue didn't take a seat either. There were two vacant seats side by side at the table she was leaning on, but she didn't intend to invite Su Yunjin to sit down. After saying hello, she turned her head and continued chatting with those boys.

Su Yunjin didn't do that ignorant thing either, and soon spotted an empty table in the corner of the back row with sharp eyes, and walked over in a hurry.

Sitting next to her was a girl with a slightly fat body and an ordinary face. The school uniform shirt on her body was washed white like Su Yunjin, and she was bowing her head and writing words silently.Su Yunjin, a hard-working classmate, has seen a lot, but on the first day of school, it is not easy to race against time to study in a noisy environment.She felt that the girl looked familiar, and suddenly remembered that she had seen her in the new dormitory last night, so she took the initiative to talk to her a little shyly:
"My name is Yunjin, how about you?"

"Mo Yuhua." The girl replied without even stopping the pen in her hand.Su Yunjin thought that she was reticent, but now she finds that there are people who cherish words more than herself, so she feels embarrassed to disturb others' study.

It was already morning reading time, but she didn't see the teacher coming in for a long time. Su Yunjin sat silently, and couldn't help but think of the scene when her parents sent her to school yesterday.My mother couldn't bear her, her eyes were red, and my father kept telling her to study hard and take good care of herself.During the summer vacation, she confessed her bad grades to them, and her parents didn't scold her too much, and her father even had a long talk with her, saying that it was not easy to send her to the provincial capital to study, and told her not to lose her due to temporary setbacks. confidence.Looking at her father's skinny cheeks, Su Yunjin didn't have the courage to say the idea of ​​going back to the county.When she went back this time, she found that her father's complexion was getting worse and worse, and he was almost out of shape. Both she and her mother wanted him to go to a big hospital in the provincial capital for a thorough physical examination.Dad didn't agree, he said it was unnecessary, just take traditional Chinese medicine at home.Su Yunjin knew that her father was afraid of wasting money, so she always wanted to save money for her daughter to go to college.Parents gave her the best. If her grades remained the same after she entered the third year of high school, she would really have no face to see them again.

Thinking of this, she felt a little sad, thinking to herself that no matter what, she must find a chance to persuade her father to go to the hospital. What is more important than the body?

Su Yunjin was only immersed in her own thoughts, and before she knew it, the classroom became quiet, and it turned out that the teacher had appeared.Their new head teacher, surnamed Sun, is a young man who has graduated from college less than five years ago. He teaches mathematics. He looks much more kind than the bald head teacher before, with a smile on his face all the time.After he briefly introduced himself, he threw out a somewhat novel decision - let everyone choose seats according to their own wishes, and freely combine them, which is called "people-oriented".After the position is determined, if adjustment is required, it is only necessary to obtain the consent of the exchange party, without his consent.According to him, this can create a relatively humane learning environment in the tense atmosphere of the black senior year.

Su Yunjin felt that the new head teacher's approach was a bit nonsense. Everyone was messed up in the old class. It was just the first day of school, and they didn't know each other well. How could they "freely organize" each other.However, she was wrong, and shortly after Mr. Sun finished speaking, the voices of moving tables, people walking, and calling each other began one after another, which was a lively scene.She found that most of the people were not as strange as she imagined. They excitedly waved to me, and I walked towards you. Soon the classroom was in chaos, and even Mo Yuhua beside him didn't know anything. It was time to stop dictating words, packed up his things and took a seat in the first row, leaving only Su Yunjin there resentfully.

Soon, a few male classmates who looked very noisy came to the corner where she was sitting.

"Can you switch places?" one of them asked.It seems that this last row is also a geomantic treasure in the eyes of some people.Su Yunjin stood up and gave them her seat. Anyway, she didn't have anyone she knew very well. There must be room for her in such a big classroom. Why don't she just find an empty seat and sit down after everyone has their own seats? .

When the chaos subsided, most people were seated, and there were not too many seats for Su Yunjin to choose from, and almost all of them were in the back row.She was pleasantly surprised to see that there was an empty seat in the middle of the penultimate row, and sitting beside her was Song Ming, one of the few old classmates she knew.Song Ming was a short-sighted boy who used to sit in front of Su Yunjin. He was easy to get along with, didn't talk much, and had good grades, especially in English.If the tablemate is such a person, it is not a bad choice.

"Excuse me, is there anyone sitting here?" Su Yunjin walked over and asked Song Ming tentatively.

"Ah?" Song Ming's reaction was a bit strange, he was taken aback, and turned his head to take a look before answering this question.There was already someone sitting in the back row of the empty seat, a boy Su Yunjin didn't recognize, at this moment he was tidying up his desk without even raising his head.

After a few seconds, Song Ming said hesitantly: "Probably not."

Su Yunjin breathed a sigh of relief, and planned to set up camp here.As soon as she sat down, she heard a loud reminder from behind: "Hey, when Meng Xue came over just now, didn't you say that girls are not allowed to sit in front of you?"

"When did I say that? I don't care about that position. Besides, are there any girls around here?" The voice of the person who answered the question was not deliberately lowered, and he spoke with confidence.

At first, Su Yunjin thought that the man's voice was a bit familiar, but after digesting it carefully, she wondered why his words sounded so strange?She turned around without knowing why.

The person sitting behind her just happened to raise his head and glance at her intentionally or unintentionally.

"Cheng Zheng, open your eyes and tell nonsense. Isn't she a girl?" The person behind Su Yunjin was speaking at the same table, who looked quite upright, with a smile on his face.

"Why didn't I realize she was a girl?"

If it was just doubts just now, now Su Yunjin is basically sure that the "she" in the other party's mouth refers to herself.

She asked inexplicably, "What do you mean?"

"What 'what do you mean'?" The boy named Cheng Zheng had an innocent face.

"Who do you think is not a girl?"

"Speaking of you, are you?"

Even a person like Su Yunjin who doesn't like to cause trouble is a little angry. She can't think of a time when she offended a new classmate she had never met before, and attracted such ridicule.

"Why am I not?" She held back her breath and asked in a low voice.

"Do you want to prove it?" The other party leaned against the table behind, looked her up and down, and smiled showing his white teeth.

His tablemate and many boys nearby laughed maliciously.

Su Yunjin discovered for the first time that a human face can be so annoying.

She replied coldly: "What does it matter to you whether I am a girl or not?"

Seeing that the seating pattern had basically been decided, Teacher Sun tapped on the podium a few times with a chalk wipe. "Students, be quiet. Let me say a few more words. In the next year, everyone will be in the same class. Before that, should we get to know each other? I suggest starting from the first row, everyone take turns on the stage to make a speech. Self introduction."

Now Su Yunjin's uneasiness overwhelmed the little unhappiness just now. Standing on the stage, she always felt very awkward, but there was nothing she could do about it. The students in front walked up one after another to introduce themselves to the audience, expressing themselves in different ways.Like Mo Yuhua, she still reported her name concisely; while a lively girl like Meng Xue told a short story about the origin of her name vividly, which made many people laugh.Su Yunjin sat in the back row, the more anxious she felt, the more time passed quickly, as if in the blink of an eye, Song Ming returned to her seat from the podium, and she didn't even understand what he said.

"The next classmate." Teacher Sun reminded.

She resigned herself to the podium, took a deep breath, and tried her best to pretend that the audience was empty.

"My...name is Su Yunjin, from..."

"Wait, I want to ask how to write the word 'rhyme' in your name? It can't be 'pregnant', right?" There was another big laugh, and Su Yunjin easily jumped from dozens of people under the podium. Among the people who identified the source of that voice, it was him again!Her face flushed instantly, and she held onto the podium with both hands at a loss, those laughters were like knives piercing her heart.

"Cheng Zheng, be careful what you say!" Teacher Sun frowned and scolded the male student who spoke rudely.It seems that the teacher knew him before, and everyone knew him, but she, the unlucky one, got into trouble with this plague god at some point.Cheng Zheng shut up, but Su Yunjin couldn't continue her self-introduction, she returned to her seat with a hot face, Song Ming gave her a sympathetic look.

The self-introduction was not interrupted by this episode.He said that he was "Cheng from Lixue, who is strong and strong." It seems that he not only wasted a good skin, but also a good name.Sure enough, there is a gap between human appearance and essence.And his tablemate, the "accomplice" who laughed the hardest was Zhou Ziyi.

After the round of introductions is over, the temporary class leader assists the teacher in distributing the new textbooks, and the morning reading time is over.

After Su Yunjin returned to her seat, she thought for a long time, and the only explanation she could come up with was that Cheng Zheng was not happy that she was sitting in front of him.Can't afford to provoke or hide?She mustered up the courage to ask several classmates, but none of them, including Meng Xue, was willing to exchange places with her.When Meng Xue heard her suggestion, she just curled her lips and said, "I don't care about that position." Su Yunjin didn't want to bother the teacher for such a thing, so she got angry for a while and could only persuade herself to be patient.

But someone seemed to dislike her for a moment. She had just returned to her original position and resigned herself to taking out the textbook for the next class when she suddenly realized that someone was poking her back with a pen, and it must be him again.Su Yunjin pretended not to notice it, but his pen was even more persistent.

"What!" She gritted her teeth and turned around.

"What's there to be angry about, isn't it just a seat, at worst I'll change it with you?" Cheng Zheng didn't take back his hand holding the pen.Su Yunjin said coldly: "No need, sitting behind you and looking at you every day will make me feel sick."

"Feeling sick? Is it because you have the word 'pregnant' in your name? Besides, why do you have to look at me every day? Oh, I know, with your height, you might not even be able to see the blackboard when sitting in the back row of me!"

"Cheng Zheng, I didn't offend you, did I?" Su Yunjin's temper was finally aroused, she stood up vigorously, and glared at Cheng Zheng condescendingly.She just wants to have a quiet and quiet study environment, and never wants to cause trouble. Could it be that the more she wants to avoid things, the more she will encounter them?Why on earth did he keep picking trouble over and over again?
Cheng Zheng sat and looked up at her. After a while, he showed a disgusted expression: "What kind of accent do you have? I don't call 'Chen Zhen'."

It is easy to omit the back nasal. It is indeed the accent of Su Yunjin's hometown in the suburban county. She has corrected this well at ordinary times, but when she is in a hurry, she naturally can't care so much. It deserves another excuse to make him laugh.

Su Yunjin said softly: "You don't deserve to be called Chen Zhen, he is a hero, and you are a villain!"

No matter how much Su Yunjin regretted accidentally sitting in front of Cheng Zheng, her senior year in high school still kicked off.Others often say that the blooming season is brilliant, but the rainy season is hazy. Su Yunjin's blooming and rainy seasons are covered by dark clouds, and meeting Cheng Zheng is more like being struck by lightning for no reason.From the first day of the new semester, the two had formed a relationship. Su Yunjin tried to ignore him as much as possible, but Cheng Zheng didn't give up on it. Playing tricks on her and making trouble for her seemed to be his favorite way to get rid of him between classes.

Most of the time, Su Yunjin couldn't understand why Cheng Zheng was targeting her especially because she was sitting in a position she shouldn't be sitting in.It's fine if he's a troublemaker, but most of the time he's normal, at least in the eyes of others, he can be called a good student who can be both active and quiet.His teachers treat him differently because of his top grades, and he is popular among his classmates. Although he is a little high-minded, he basically belongs to the type that if you don't bother him, he will never bother you.However, it is such a person who is impeccable in other places, but has such a poisonous tongue towards her, stirring up troubles every now and then.

"It happened to her", this is really an ambiguous phrase.Most girls of their age have a fairy tale dream in their hearts.Before midnight, Prince Charming "just happened" to hold Cinderella's hand among the crowd.But Su Yunjin doesn't like this kind of story, the prince is already rich enough, so he doesn't need a princess with the same background, so he naturally pursues beautiful girls as he pleases.And what is Cinderella, a girl who has everything except money, even her feet are a few sizes smaller than ordinary people, but what does Su Yunjin have?The only thing she and Cinderella have in common is that they are equally poor.Many times, looking at her thin and faded school uniform and her bland face in the mirror, she couldn't tell what was so attractive about her. Coupled with her awkward personality and mediocre grades, even if the prince never Passing by will only want her to help carry the shoes.Besides, none of the stories mentioned that the prince tortured the girl he liked.Cheng Zheng's dislike for her was so obvious in every word and deed, the gap between them was like a cloud of mud.Not to mention that she knew it very well, and no one around would misunderstand that Cheng Zheng's actions against her were due to a boy's special concern for girls—if he had to say it was special, it would be that he didn't like her very much.

In the dormitory, Su Yunjin couldn't escape such cynicism.Another girl in the class, Zhou Jing, hinted more than once that she "deliberately" sat in front of Cheng Zheng to ask for trouble. Go up, no wonder others hate it.

Su Yunjin thought to herself, before choosing that position, God knows who Cheng Zheng is, and what cares Meng Xue has.But she was unwilling to defend herself in front of Zhou Jing.

Like Su Yunjin and Mo Yuhua, Zhou Jing is a student from the surrounding counties and townships. Like all science classes, her class has a "masculine yang and yin waning". There are a total of eight girls, and five of them live in the provincial capital.Few local students live on campus, and most of the students living in the simple dormitory are silent and hard-working students. They are not as active as girls in the city, nor are they well-informed.Whenever those city girls who are going to school excitedly talk about the wonderful episodes of TV dramas and the latest MV of their idols, discuss the beautiful dresses in a certain clothing store, or discuss the sports news of the day with the boys, they can only be silent. He listened intently, unable to interject a word.Outside of those wonderful worlds, they can only go back to the dormitory with only beds and walls every night after self-study, and what they are most familiar with is the light from the bed in the middle of the night or early morning when they study hard with a flashlight.

Mo Yuhua seems to be a person who can't tolerate anything other than studying. Solving problems and memorizing vocabulary are as instinctive as breathing for her. She is usually unsmiling, but it is not difficult to get along with.Zhou Jing is different. She is extremely enthusiastic about public welfare, always rushing to do the work in the class, likes to run in front of the teacher, and also likes to talk to those girls in the city when they are chatting, but it is often not what they want.She prefers to surround Meng Xue to get close, even if Meng Xue treats her lukewarm.In Zhou Jing's logic, Cheng Zheng was too far away from her, but Meng Xue was so familiar with Cheng Zheng that she couldn't occupy that position, so why should it be Su Yunjin's turn?

Su Yunjin tried to understand Zhou Jing's eagerness to get closer to the most active girl in the class and to integrate into that circle. Everyone has their own ambitions.But she couldn't bear the attitude of the other party acting like Meng Xue's watchdog.Not to mention that Cheng Zheng didn't look good at all in her opinion, she clearly proposed to switch places, but no one paid any attention.What's more, that seat is the school's public property, and no one's name is written on it. The teacher said that everyone is free to choose. Others can sit, and she can sit too. Cheng Zheng has nothing to do with it, and it has nothing to do with Meng Xue.

Su Yunjin looks gentle and introverted, but she is very strong in her heart.She repeatedly forbears, but Cheng Zheng pushes forward again and again, coupled with Zhou Jing's fanning the flames, it arouses her stubborn temper.What right does Cheng Zheng have to be so domineering, she is not afraid of him, even if she is on pins and needles, she is determined not to leave.

(End of this chapter)