Chapter 2 1. See Xia

For a while, if someone asked who Chen Jianxia was, they could only get two answers. Boys will say, the girl who fainted during military training. Some of the girls would answer the same thing as the boys, and some would add a sentence after fainting, "It's the girl who was carried to the infirmary by the acting squad leader." Then came the ambiguous smile, which only girls could understand. He just carried her to the infirmary.She passed out and didn't know anything.When I opened my eyes, the sun was shining brightly outside. The beautiful dark-skinned girl who was with her at that time laughed exaggeratedly and said loudly, "You don't know yet, it was our big monitor who carried you back"—she didn't even look up and look carefully at the person who was standing. The boy who was smiling at the bedside just nodded his head and thanked him hastily, and then insisted on going back to the playground to participate in the military training.The girl covered her mouth in surprise, "Are you crazy, you just woke up. Do you like military training so much? If I were you, I would close my eyes and continue to fall into a coma!"

This statement made Jian Xia feel even more uneasy. The girl then giggled, pinched her face and said, "Little beauty, you are so cute, what's your name?" Jian Xia didn't understand that "little beauty" was just a very common name at the time, and she blushed when she heard it. "My name is Chen Jianxia." Chen Jianxia felt heavy since he woke up. Since she skipped military training because she fainted, would anyone think she was putting on a show?Do you think she is squeamish and lazy, and it's unfair? Today is the first day of high school life.She doesn't want to leave a bad impression on everyone because of "special treatment".

Just like being hated by junior high school classmates. Not at all. In Chen Jianxia's heart, the small junior high school in the county town of his hometown has always been boiling like a pot of rice porridge, gurgling, bubbling with sticky bubbles.Students cut classes and fight puppy love, and most of the teachers turned a blind eye and closed their eyes, too lazy to intervene too much. Anyway, the best affiliation for these children is secondary vocational schools, and most of them just passed the nine-year compulsory education, got a diploma, and then went to work or served in the army.

Jian Xia is different, she is the teacher's hope. The class teacher predicted that she would be the first girl in the history of this junior high school to be admitted to the county No. 1 middle school—these teachers had nothing to reward the good baby for seeing Xia, they could only protect her and let her sit in a fixed position in the first row, Never have to change seats, never have to attend sweeps. Like a copper bean mixed into the porridge pot, it will not be boiled no matter how hard it is cooked. So everyone doesn't like her. However, no one bullied her. Everyone thinks that Jian Xia is a girl from another world, the teacher's darling, a phoenix that will fly on the branches in the future-this phoenix does not need to change seats with all the clanging belongings every weekend, nor Need to wipe the blackboard and sweep the floor to take out the trash.Boys don't joke with her, don't tease her, don't provoke her, there is no scandal or gossip; girls think she is transparent, they will not call her when they talk about anything, and always pay attention to avoiding her direction when calling friends.It's just that no one knew that Chen Jianxia, ​​who was busy balancing the equation with his head down, was actually listening with his ears all the time.

She is just a phoenix enjoying special treatment, flying to the distant sycamore branch. Sometimes she takes pity on these peers who don't know the hardships of the future with a precocious sense of superiority, and sometimes she pities herself with this precocious sense of superiority. Jianxia's entire junior high school life is like a poached egg tormented by two different emotions.She often raises her head in the noisy self-study class, sighs a long time, and a sense of powerlessness blows over her face. How happy they are, what are they laughing at? However, all of this has nothing to do with her. She even began to worry that if she looked back at her teenage years when she was old, she would only see a blank space.

A blank space, with a loud and distant background sound, rushing towards my face. Just this summer, Chen Jianxia received the admission notice from No. 1 County Middle School, and at the same time was summoned by the leaders of the Education Bureau—Zhenhua Middle School in the provincial capital was the first to select outstanding students from counties and cities other than the provincial capital. In the words of the middle school teacher, it is simply robbing students. The one who was robbed was Chen Jianxia. For the first time, she understood why some girls in the class liked to provoke the boys to fight for themselves so much.

That feels so good. Mom and Dad specially bought firecrackers and set them off at the door of the house. The younger brother, who had just entered junior high school, was patted on the head by all the elders in turn and taught "be sure to be as promising as your sister in the future" until he ran away impatiently.Jianxia felt that she had spent the happiest vacation since school, and was so happy that she almost began to dread the arrival of the new semester. Before leaving, my mother had been worrying about how to pack Jianxia’s luggage. The heat was unbearable, but she was reluctant to turn on the air conditioner. The electric fan was blowing hot air. She became more and more upset. Zhuan began to teach again, saying that when Chen Jianxia came to the provincial capital to study, he must be proud and don't go out to embarrass himself, otherwise it would be better to stay in the county No. 1 middle school, save money and be closer to home, and take care of his younger brother. The younger brother just entered junior high school, she left There is no one to help my younger brother with his homework. Junior high school is so stressful, what can I do if I delay it...

Chen Jianxia was upset when he heard that, so he grabbed the diagonal denim bag and said that he was going to take a walk on the street. "Sister, don't you think it's too hot in the sun?" The younger brother was sitting on the sofa eating popsicles and watching TV series intently, Chen Jianxia secretly glared at him. There is only one commercial center in the small county town, where several main roads converge into a large intersection, and the tallest building standing in the middle is the County No. 1 Department Store. A long, long time ago, the prosperity here was due to the county government and farmers' markets, and a long, long time later, it was because of KFC, Nike, Sony, and Chow Tai Fook.Except for this commercial center, there are few places where people in the county can go shopping seriously, so acquaintances frequently run into each other in the only bustling area of ​​this small county town. The young couples sharing the same ice cream cone, or three or five girls in the same class surrounded the city in front of the booth and chatted about which scrunchie was more beautiful.

However, when Jianxia walked alone on this street that day, there were very few pedestrians.At 2 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, the hottest day in August, the hottest time of the day, Jianxia stepped on the shadows of buildings and street trees all the way, lowered her head and did not look at the windows on both sides, and let the fine bangs on her forehead sweep clean and moist eyebrows.When crossing the road, the hot air from the exhaust pipe of the taxi sprayed on her calf, which startled Jianxia. She stretched out her left hand to cover her eyes, and the key was to cool down a little.

She didn't know where she was going, but she was going anyway.Maybe it's because I'm about to leave for the provincial capital, and I feel a little flustered. For some reason, I remembered that when I was in elementary school, my mother took my younger brother and her hand to buy reading glasses for my grandfather at No. 1 Department Store. My younger brother inexplicably asked about the appearance of the provincial capital. At that time, my mother teased him and said that the provincial capital is where many No. 1 Department Stores gather. Together.Jian Xiaque once heard the female classmates chatting and saying that there is nothing to do in the first department store, and even fast food restaurants only have KFC, not even McDonald's, let alone Pizza Hut or something.

It's still fun in the provincial capital, they said. These names kept her in mind until junior high school.When he was in junior high school, Chen Jianxia, ​​a good boy who had never been to an Internet cafe, took the opportunity of helping to grade papers in the teacher's office, sneaked to the public computer in the office, opened the homepage of Sina, entered the three words "pizza hut" in the search engine, and finally ranked first. The first time I saw what pizza looked like. At that time, my mother touched my younger brother's head and said with a smile that he would go to the provincial capital to go to college in the future! My parents used to say these words to my younger brother, but the top student who was snatched away by Zhenhua in the end was Jianxia. Jian Xia looked up at the plaque of the No. 1 Department Store that had long since lost its luster, and silently told herself to work harder. Chen Jianxia, ​​the provincial capital is not the end. She wandered around the No. 1 Department Store aimlessly, and the first thing she saw when she went out was KFC.The statue of the colonel's grandfather was sitting on the bench at the door, leaning on a cane, still smiling, not in a hurry. She pushed open the door, and the cold air rushed in, making the pores of her body tremble with comfort.There were very few people in the store, Jian Xia found a side seat and sat for a while, feeling a little sorry for only enjoying the air-conditioning, as if he was taking advantage of KFC grandpa - so he stood up and planned to order something to eat.Before he reached the ordering counter, he froze on the way. The waiter who had just poured the plate into the remnant food counter turned around and met Xia Jianxia's surprised gaze. "See Xia..." It's Wang Nanyu. Familiar classmates wear familiar uniforms, but they look so strange. Chen Jianxia and Wang Nanyu hardly spoke, and the boy was sitting in the penultimate row.Most of the booing and laughter erupting in the class came from the countdown to the chicken chops. Sometimes Jian Xia felt like a scarecrow with his back to the coast. Every day he heard laughter rolling from behind like waves, but stopped at Very close, and then gradually recede.In her junior high school class, seats are arranged according to grades, and the teacher also knows that the classroom is chaotic, for fear that the good students will not be able to understand the class, so they put all of them in the front row, and let the students in the back row fend for themselves. In Chen Jianxia's heart, most of the students with poor grades or even bad grades gathered in the back row.She sometimes had to go to the back of the room to throw out some trash, and she always got some unkind looks. But Wang Nanyu's eyes are definitely not included in this gaze.He is also considered a half-delinquent boy, but Jian Xia felt that he was very friendly to him—it was just because of one small thing, the only one, a very small thing. One morning in the autumn of the second year of junior high school, Chen Jianxia was holding a banana peel and standing not far from the trash can, facing a large group of boys who were blocking her from the trash can, kicking and playing with each other as if no one else was there, feeling at a loss as to what to do.At this time, Wang Nanyu noticed her, walked over, stretched out his hand, smiled kindly and said, give it to me, I will throw it for you. Seeing Xia blankly handing the banana peel to the boy in front of him, he forgot to thank him, turned around and left hastily with his head down. "Yes...it's you, are you working here?" Jian Xia asked stiffly. Wang Nanyu smiled, "Well, yes, it's not considered a part-time job. If you get used to it, you can keep doing it." If you adapt?Jian Xia smiled shyly, "I can't do it forever." After I finished speaking, I felt regretful. How could I speak like this?It's ugly. Chen Jianxia didn't know what to say to make up for his condescending unintentional words just now, but Wang Nanyu didn't care much, as if he forgave Jian Xia's bad words. "Do it for a while now. In the future...the family may let me go to the army." Jian Xia stared at her toes nervously, "That... that's good... work hard." The two soon had nothing to say. Wang Nanyu picked up the bucket beside him and said to the dining table, "You want to order? Go quickly." Jian Xia nodded, walked a few steps, and stopped suddenly. "Wang...Wang Nanyu?" "Ok?" "Last time, last time I forgot to say thank you to you." Wang Nanyu opened his mouth and thought for a long time before he slapped his head and smiled. "What a big deal, why don't you just throw a banana peel?" Yeah, what a big deal—and it was a year ago. But they both remembered. Seeing that Xia and Wang Nanyu looked at each other and smiled, their faces were a little red. "When are you going to the provincial capital?" Seeing Xia was a little surprised.Most of her classmates didn't care much about the results of the unified entrance examination for junior high school and high school. Many of them even got their graduation certificates after the exam and didn't take the unified entrance examination for higher education—such as Wang Nanyu. She was a little smug, he actually knew that she didn't go to County No. 1 Middle School, but she was admitted by Zhenhua. "Next Tuesday." She smiled. "Your parents sent you?" "No... My aunt is coming to the county. She will go back to the provincial capital in a few days and just drive me there. My parents won't be going. There won't be room in the car." "They really miss you, don't they?" Jian Xia nodded, shook his head again, and finally nodded again. She doesn't know it herself.Will her parents really miss her?With my younger brother by my side, they probably wouldn't feel that there was a big difference. Anyway, at home, Jian Xia didn't talk much. As the old saying goes, the palm of the hand and the back of the hand are full of meat. As the old saying goes, ten fingers are unusually long. Wang Nanyu changed the subject very considerately, "When you go to the new environment, take care of yourself, and don't bother to immerse yourself in your studies. Since you are going to live in the provincial capital, go out and walk around on weekends." After a pause, he added, "But we must continue to work hard, we must give us face." She blushed, and didn't know how to answer. The anger that had just been nagged by her mother seemed to be calmed down.Chen Jianxia just nodded and said softly, "I... thank you." Wang Nanyu winked at her, "I can't say any more, the foreman will scold me later. Give this to you!" It is a wind-up toy that you can get when you buy Happy Meal, and the colonel is skiing in the transparent packaging bag. After he finished speaking, he ran into the room with the bucket in his hand.Jian Xia stared blankly at the packaging bag in his hand for a while, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.She didn't bring much money, so she went to the dining table and ordered a small cup of Coke, and returned to the seat by the window, biting the straw in a daze, sometimes looking out of the window where the sun was burning, and sometimes watching Wang Nanyu from the corner of her eye.He hurriedly wiped the table and mopped the floor, tried very hard, but was scolded by the foreman with a frown. Seeing Xia caressing the waxy Coke cup covered with a layer of cold water vapor in his hand, the KFC grandpa on it was smiling and sweating coldly. The "graduating class big brother" who is idle in the campus is always arrogant in front of the younger brothers, but he is also diligent when cleaning the tables, chairs and benches. When he is scolded, his shy face still has the expression of a child. Jianxia suddenly realized how gentle the campus is, but many of her classmates may never go back. The trace of sadness that had just flooded her heart was severely erased by herself.There is always a banquet in the world.They always have to bear their own lives, and will not be forgiven by fate just because they are young and ignorant. And the one she was going to take, at least on the surface, looked bright and open.This is what she fought for. Knowledge alters your fate. But knowledge did not tell her what kind of fate is considered good.