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"...The teacher called you." Ye Chen lowered his head and bumped her chair with his thigh in embarrassment, "Hello, Wan Qing?"

"Huh?" Wan Qing, who was looking at the scenery outside the window with her chin resting, turned her head leisurely, her eyes that looked like dark green under the sun were extraordinarily quiet, "What's wrong?"

"Yes, it's you, what's your name?"

"Sunshine at night."

Now, the whole class knows that there is such a beautiful girl.

She is indeed good-looking, but of course she is not at the level of being overwhelmed by the country and the city, and the most impressive thing about her is the two tear moles growing side by side in the corner of the right eye.

"Well, you and the boy next to you sit in the front, the first row, so you can see clearly."

"Oh..." Wan Qing was a little bit reluctant, but she stood up positively, thinking that her purpose was to study, not to relax.

With her petite figure, everyone couldn't help but look at her a few more times.

Looks like she's probably the type who has to stand in front of the girls in line.

"Okay, then..."

According to his observation of the students just now, Guang Qiutang kept adjusting his position, and would often deliberately separate two people he knew very well, and put them together at the same table with other people, like Wan Qing and Ye Chen who still sat together It's a minority.

There are not many people in the class, only about thirty in total.

The classroom was originally designed for a class of 50 people, so it seems somewhat loose and empty at this moment.

"Okay, everyone, remember your position. After you remember, gather in the corridor and line up according to height. I'll adjust it for you—the opening ceremony will be here soon."

The students looked at each other, and they didn't know who stood up first, and the others followed suit and walked out sparsely.

In this day and age, those who can be admitted to high school are at least not ordinary hooligans, but there will still be those students who like to be noisy. When queuing up, the hallway is as lively as a vegetable market.

Don't think that only class [-] is like this, in fact, class [-] is also like this.

Ye Chen and Wan Qing separated temporarily, but he could see her anytime because...she was really the shortest girl in the class, standing at the front.

As for Ye Chen, he wasn't tall, but he wasn't too short in this era, so he ranked seventh.

The familiar athlete's march sounded, giving Wan Qing the illusion of traveling through time and space—no, she has indeed come to the world after traveling through time and space.

Things like the opening ceremony have long been sealed in the deepest part of my memory.

This scene of many people gathering, in her mind, corresponds to the company's annual meeting, or the company's daily morning meeting.

Yes, I don't know when, every company has to hold a meeting in the morning, and they have to fart when they have nothing to do, wasting everyone's time.

Probably because of this, the working hours have been extended from eight hours to twelve hours.

The petite and pretty Wan Qing stood at the front of the line, and many students from other classes couldn't help but look at her when they passed by.

But not enough to trip him up looking at her.

Wan Qing didn't feel embarrassed at all, and even felt very satisfied.

This shows that you are very attractive, and charm can often be exchanged for more valuable things.

These are all benefits.

Just as he was distracted, he saw that woman who looked too young for the position of principal walked up to the rostrum.

A gust of wind flew by, and the playground paved with yellow mud was flying dust.

Yes, although the playground is separated from the runway, it is not the plastic track that is common later.

In the middle is not a turf court, but a basketball court overgrown with weeds.

There are no students for a summer vacation, which makes these weeds grow extraordinarily lush.

The microphone has a long wire, and there is an obvious delay when the sound is played from the speaker.

But this does not prevent the continuation of the opening ceremony.

For the high school students here, this is probably the most special opening ceremony in their lives.

"After a long summer vacation, we have returned to school, and our study life is about to begin. I hope everyone can take it easy, especially the third-year students...

"...I believe everyone has discovered that the reason for the absence of senior one students this time is because our school is about to close down, and the second and third grade students are our last two classes of students."

In fact, there will only be one session—— Wan Qing said to herself.

"I hope everyone can cherish the last time in school. There may be some twists and turns in the lives of many students recently, but please persevere, because there is a more beautiful scenery waiting for us..."

The female principal's speech was very long, but it was not perfunctory. Her tone was very emotional, and she didn't even take the speech script. She just talked like this, as if she was having a long talk with the students.

Most of the students did not respond, and many even began to feel impatient.

But Wan Qing noticed that some teachers were hiding in the dark and secretly wiping their eyes.

The class teacher Guang Qiutang sometimes lowered his head, sometimes looked at the sky, and when he looked at the students occasionally, the eye circles on his vicissitudes of face were also a little red.

Wan Qing pursed her lips, empathizing with the teachers for the first time.

——I remember graduating at that time, and after learning that the school would be closed in a few days, he didn't cry.

Even though many people around him shed tears, he was only a little sad, and this kind of sadness was forgotten in a few days.

But now again, it is not as peaceful as before.

"...that's the end of my speech at the beginning of school. Students and teachers will also encourage you..." She bowed deeply and walked off the stage slowly, and then the bald dean came to speak.

His tone was much calmer, as if he didn't care whether the school would still exist in the future.

Afterwards, the teacher's speech and the student representative's speech all used formulaic templates. The atmosphere was very calm, and the students were extremely impatient.

Until the physical education teacher shouted, "Teacher leave first, and students in each class leave in order", the students who had stood on the dusty playground for a long time immediately became chaotic, and most of them insisted on going downstairs. Then they scattered.

Wan Qing walked at the end, her head slightly lowered.

Suddenly, she bumped into a solid yet somewhat soft object, and when she looked up, it was Ye Chen's back.

"Why are you standing here in a daze?" She raised her head and patted his shoulder.

"Look, there's a kitten."

"Dirty, looks like a stray cat."

"It's only two or three months old. It must look good after taking a bath... Ah, tell me, why don't we try raising a cat? My mother never let me have one..."

"Keeping a cat? Well, you might as well forget about it."

"Why? Now no one will object... Don't you want to raise it? Look how cute it is!"

"Yegong loves dragons, I advise you not to raise them."

"Huh? Did you raise it?"

"I have raised it, raised it for half a month, and then gave it away."

"Hey, you are too impatient, and you have been raising it for half a month, so you gave it away? Am I so cold-blooded and ruthless in the future?"

"...Actually, after I gave it away, I still regretted it a little. Seeing the empty home, I felt an inexplicable sense of emptiness, and felt uncomfortable as if my heart had been pinched."

"Then why..."

"Because I find it troublesome, I don't want to pay attention to whether it has pushed things off my desk every day, and I don't want to spend time cleaning up the cat hair on the ground every day, and because I don't have money, I don't even want to spend money for vaccinations and surgery. "

"Is it sick?"

"No, it's just that after reaching the puberty, he will pee everywhere, so - he needs to be sterilized."

"……what."

"People in the future will treat cats like this."

"People in the future are so cruel."

"...They said it was good for the cat." Wan Qing shrugged, "But anyway, I know that doing those things will at least be better for me."

"But you still gave it away?"

"Yes, now that I think about it, it's a good idea to give it away, otherwise, when I'm locked up at home, I can't even support myself, let alone the cat." She took a deep breath, "So I still did something Good thing."

Ye Chen scratched his cheek and bit his lips lightly: "...But maybe it will live better if it follows you, maybe the person who adopted it can't take good care of it - if it is here, you Would you not commit suicide by jumping off the building? You... Don't you think of it as a family member, huh, why would you bother... If it was me, absolutely not. "

Wan Qing looked at the kitten that jumped down the wall, didn't say anything, just kept silent——

Until the bell for class rang.

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19. Go move books

The first class on the first day of school always seems to belong to the head teacher.

——Even though the class schedule posted on the wall says "Chinese" in big characters, the person standing on the podium is still Guang Qiutang, an English teacher and homeroom teacher.

His speaking speed was neither too fast nor too slow, just enough for people to hear clearly, which is very rare in this age when many teachers can't speak Mandarin well.

In 1996, there were actually quite a few high school teachers who themselves only graduated from high school. If they were born in that special era, they probably didn’t even have a decent diploma. At most, they had a resume of studying in a private school.

The teaching materials are always revised and changed, and it was not stable until the 90s.

Before the college entrance examination was released, many schools even compiled their own teaching materials, which were varied and different.

Universities actually existed at that time, but they were based on a recommendation system, and there was no way to get in.

"Students, everyone was born in a good time." Guang Qiutang smiled cheerfully, "Although the society may be a little turbulent now, compared to our time, it is much better. At least you can rely on your own real strength to read, rather than relying on the relationship between your parents and relatives."

Wan Qing sat at the front, it was inconvenient to look back, but just by hearing the slightly noisy whispers, most of the people were not listening to the class teacher's speech.

And a class is about to pass like this.

He didn’t talk about knowledge points, but he talked about a lot of big principles, which is not useless, but people who can wake up because of a few words, probably only exist in film and television works.

"Okay, class is about to end. I hope everyone can think about what I said in today's class. This is an important fork in life. It's too late to regret it later—boys all get up and move downstairs with me." Books." Seeing that no one responded, he cleared his throat again and repeated in a high voice, "Boys, get up and carry books downstairs with me!"

The classroom, which was originally just a little noisy, suddenly became extremely lively. The sound of moving tables and chairs was accompanied by loud conversations, and even the subsequent bell for the end of get out of class was overwhelmed.

"Let's go, go down and carry the books." Wan Qing pushed Ye Chen down.

"Oh, let's go." Before he could react, he hurriedly coughed twice after taking two steps, "What are you doing...you are a girl now..."

Wan Qing stared into his eyes for a moment, then sat down very cheerfully: "That's right—it happens that I'm too lazy to move, so go down by yourself."

"I don't want to go either...is there a need for so many people?" Ye Chen muttered, but seeing that the last boy in the class had gone out, he could only walk away.

"Are you envious now?"

"Cut...you think I didn't see you when you were in trouble?" He curled his lips and ran out of the classroom at a faster pace. His eager greeting came from the corridor, "Hello! Jiang Xing!"

The name Jiang Xing sounds very strange to Wan Qing now.

But for Ye Chen now, it is extremely familiar.

Jiang Xing, one of Ye Chen's buddies in school who shared weal and woe, both of them were scumbags, but Jiang Xing was a bit taller than him, at 1.8 meters tall, he was well-known in the whole school as a tall man.

In the Jiangnan generation at this time, people with such a height are quite prominent.

It's a pity that although this guy has a masculine figure, his face is full of pimples and acne marks, and there are almost no patches of intact skin, which makes him, like Ye Chen, not very attractive to women.

"Hey, Ye Chen!" Jiang Xing put his arm around him, "You're also in class five, why didn't I see it before?"

"Damn, don't you care about me so much? I'm sitting next to the most beautiful girl in the class!"

"Oh? Really? I was late today. I came in over the wall. I was too sleepy in the first class and fell asleep on my stomach. I played too late yesterday."

"Where did you go? Playing so late."

Jiang Xing hugged Ye Chen's neck a little more towards him, and smiled triumphantly and mysteriously: "Hey, guess what?"

"Why? You didn't go to the roadside hair washing room, did you? Even if you're not a girl, you still have to keep yourself clean—how much is it for one night?"

"Grass, where do you think you are going? I went for a drive with my uncle last night. We made a big circle around the city, especially the suburban countryside outside."

"Your uncle bought a motorcycle?"

"What motorcycle? That's a car! And it's not a van, it's a red car. He even found a modification shop to install a rear spoiler on the back. It's so fucking handsome!"

"Damn!" Ye Chen could already imagine that in the gloom of night, a red car with a rear wing speeding past, leaving only an afterimage, "Your uncle is rich!"

"I went overseas to do business and made some money. He even told me to stop reading and go overseas with him after the summer vacation. Right there, what, oh yes—Singapore! The money is coming in so fast!"

Ye Chen was full of envy. After all, let alone a car, any car is a luxury for ordinary people in this era. Even if they can afford it, they can't afford it.