Chapter 3 Chapter Two

Going to and from school together day after day, Ji Ting and the Gu family sisters gradually became acquainted.In fact, strictly speaking, he is just getting acquainted with Zhiyi. Although the parents of the two families let the three of them go home together after school, so that they can take care of each other, but when the school bell rings, Zhian often runs away. Sometimes when she sees her on the road or at Gu's house, she curls her lips and doesn't pay much attention. Ji Ting also tried to join the ranks of Zhian's games, but his parents taught him since he was a child: a child who stands up well, sits up well, follows the rules, and is knowledgeable is a good child.So in addition to the normal learning tasks, he also filled his spare time with courses in interest classes. His desk was always full of books and periodicals that his parents subscribed and bought for him. He finally went outside to get some fresh air. An and the others ran wildly all over the mountains behind the school.At the beginning, I just thought it was novelty and fun, so I followed Zhian to scare couples who had a tryst in a secluded place, made a slingshot to shoot birds, caught crickets, and played treasure hunting games. Zhian was also happy to have a little girl who was a few years older than her. attendant.But after all, Ji Ting is more sensible than Zhi An, and he is used to being a good boy. Sometimes when Zhi An is mischievous, or doing too outrageous pranks, he will often not help the evildoers, but stop them with words. When he returned home covered in mud, he was severely criticized by his father. Zhi An also disliked his gossip and got in the way. Gradually, he stopped playing with him.

But Zhiyi and Ji Ting hit it off.It's strange to say that Zhi Yi, who has always been shy and introverted, likes to be with Ji Ting besides Zhi An, who grew up with her since she was a child. She is also willing to share her beloved goldfish and her experience of raising fish with Ji Ting.Slowly, Ji Ting also began to understand that there are so many types of goldfish with strange names, such as dragon eyes, tiger heads, and arhats, which he can basically distinguish.Zhiyi is also willing to be patient and listen to his allusions and legends from his mother who teaches Chinese and books.The two quiet children often do their homework together in the study of Ji's or Gu's family, or do their own things and read their own books, but they feel at ease with each other.

Ji Ting sometimes thought in his heart, Zhi Yi is really a girl who makes people feel distressed, so well-behaved and cute, but her body is weak, she has frequent serious and minor illnesses, and she has to be raised at home when she gets sick, which is probably one of the reasons why she is introverted. one.Due to physical reasons, even academic performance is affected. Fortunately, Uncle Gu and Aunt Wang don't care about these things. In their eyes, nothing compares to their daughter's health and happiness. Ji Ting is the only son, and it is only natural that the two adults in the family concentrate all their energies on him.But like the Gu family has two children of the same age, there is still a difference in the importance of adults in their hearts. After all, people's hearts don't grow in the middle.In Ji Ting's view, Uncle Gu and his wife devoted more time and attention to Zhiyi than Zhi'an.Especially Aunt Wang, apart from her work in the school clinic, she devotes most of her energy to taking care of Zhiyi.Regarding this, everyone can understand that Zhiyi is not in good health and really needs more care, and Zhian, who is full of vigor and vigor, will only be happier and more comfortable when no one restrains her.In terms of material things, the Gu family is still a bowl of water. As long as one daughter has it, the other must have it too.What makes Ji Ting most strange is that his father, Ji Peiwen, who has always been unsmiling, is the only one who loves Gu Zhi'an. Every time he visits Gu's house, he will definitely bring a small gift for Zhi'an. Of course, Zhiyi will also give the same gift. There is one, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that his well-made small slingshots and bird cages are gadgets that only Zhian would like.Occasionally, Ji Ting couldn't help feeling grievances. His father, who always had a straight face in front of him, would often be amused by Zhi An's unintentional words or a mischievous little move.Zhi'an always has an indifferent attitude towards adults' thoughts, but Ji Peiwen's love makes her feel that she has an extra umbrella, often getting into trouble, and unwilling to tell her parents, so she asks Uncle Ji to stand up for her.Ji Peiwen took care of some innocuous little problems for her. After Gu Weizhen and his wife found out, they often blamed their old friends half-jokingly, which would spoil Zhi'an and make her even more presumptuous.Ji Peiwen just laughed and said, "I like little girls who are a bit heroic."

The time of a child always passes slowly in the eager anticipation of growing up. When I look back, I realize that the passage of time is just a matter of opening and closing eyes.After Ji Ting graduated from elementary school, he did not choose to go to the junior high school of the high school attached to G University.A boy like him, with good looks, excellent grades, and good manners, is naturally the darling in the eyes of the teacher and the little girls in the class. However, due to his strict family education and simple nature, Ji Ting is a late bloomer in terms of emotions, so, When the boys and girls in the class were intoxicated in the twilight of the blooming season, he was still a silly child who only knew how to study hard and make progress every day.

Now is the era when Qiong Yao and Jin Yong's novels are popular. Crush and being crushed are the most popular thoughts of sensitive boys and girls. It seems that every girl has a "beautiful sadness" in her heart, and every boy is fantasizing about fighting with swords.And these books are absolutely forbidden in Ji Ting's life. Apart from textbooks, there are only "Five Thousand Years of Up and Down" and "One Hundred Thousand Whys" on his bookshelf. How to make it" and the like. One day in the second year of junior high school, Ji Ting found a beautiful letter paper folded into a heart shape in the dark of his desk. The letter was written to him by a girl who was a good student in the class and lived next door to him. unit.Ji Ting could barely understand the contents of the letter, but he had no way to connect those hazy girlish feelings with the girl in the same class that he would meet every day when he went to and from school.

Liu Jilin matured earlier than him in this respect, coaxing that the girl had a crush on him. Ji Ting was afraid that the girl would be embarrassed, so he didn't let Liu Jilin make it public, so he secretly hid the letter.For the owner of the letter, he was not disliked, but that was all.However, he could stop Liu Jilin from talking too much, but he couldn't stop himself from being too thoughtful. The letter paper with a faint fragrance seemed to open a door in his heart, and behind that door seemed to be a hidden figure .He doesn't like the girl who wrote the letter, so who does he like?How does it feel to like it?

A thought flashed through his mind quickly, and then he immediately extinguished it, blushing unconsciously.The fifteen-year-old boy was a little dizzy from the pile of unsolvable thoughts that suddenly came out of him. This was the first time in his life that he seriously thought about this problem, and it seemed to have a hint of the beginning of chaos. Of course, he couldn't find the answers to these questions in a short time. After school that day, he once again told Liu Jilin not to tell others about it, and then he picked up his schoolbag and waited on the way to the primary school as usual. Zhiyi.

A large group of elementary school students wearing elementary school uniforms rushed out of the classroom, and the first thing he saw was Zhi An.Zhi An, like Zhi Yi, is already a sixth-grade student, and the two sisters at this time cannot be confused at all.Although Zhi An is a younger sister, she is more than a head taller than Zhi Yi. She no longer likes to wear the same clothes and tie the same princess hair as Zhi Yi. Like now, the large school uniform is loosely put on her thin body, and the red scarf is crooked around her neck. With her delicate eyebrows and nonchalant expression, it is easy to recognize her in the crowd. come out.

Zhi'an is still surrounded by several playmates who grew up together, they are all famous mischievous boys in this area, she gesticulates and talks while walking.Ji Ting guessed: She must be planning to do something bad again. When Zhi An walked past him, he smiled at her, but she passed him as if she didn't see him at all.Ji Ting thought it was boring, so he looked at her back helplessly, and then saw Zhiyi walking out of the classroom with her schoolbag on her back. The two walked side by side on the small road home, and along the way, his or her classmates and playmates showed ambiguous smiles and strange smiles at their colleagues, but they turned a blind eye.Ji Ting has gotten used to it, he feels that he is open-minded in his heart, he doesn't take offense when he sees it, and he is self-defeating. Zhiyi is someone he has made up his mind to take good care of since he was a child, and he will do what he says.

Normally, the two of them are not chattering people, but Zhiyi couldn't help being a little strange when she saw that he was out of his mind all the way, so she asked, "Brother Ji Ting, what are you so preoccupied with?" There was another blush on Ji Ting's fair cheeks. "I didn't think about anything, but I didn't understand the type of questions the teacher gave in class today. Zhiyi, let's go faster and see if your blue dragon eye fish is going to give birth today." Ji Ting Quickly changed the subject. Zhiyi knew that he wasn't telling the truth, but she didn't get to the bottom of it, she pursed her lips and smiled, and followed him to speed up her pace towards home.

Ji Ting’s junior high school days passed without any surprises. He thought that if there were no accidents, his whole life should have passed without any surprises. Teaching in a university as expected, marrying a wife who is well-educated and like-minded, having a child, devoting all my attention to the child, educating him to be an intellectual like myself, and then growing old quietly, while the child And repeat the same life as him. In fact, there is nothing wrong with this, but if he must spend his life like this, he thought, at least when he still has reasons to be self-willed, why can't he do some things that are not planned, a little accident is not a big deal. Will make him deviate from his life track, but can make him happy.So after the senior high school entrance examination, Ji Ting filled out the city's fifth middle school on his high school volunteer form.The Fifth Middle School is a key middle school with the same reputation as the High School Attached to G University, and its university enrollment rate ranks among the top two in the city every year. But what makes it even more attractive to Ji Ting is that its school site and G University are located in the south and north of the city respectively. He was admitted to No. 5 Middle School, so he must live on campus.Until he was nearly sixteen years old, Ji Ting had never been away from his parents for more than a week. The longest record was a five-day summer camp he attended during the summer vacation of his first year of junior high school, although the summer camp was organized by the school. Yes, but when he was away from home, my mother was still very concerned.In fact, Ji Ting also finds it quite funny, he is not a person who cannot take care of himself, nor is he mischievous, most of the time he can take care of himself very well, but his parents are so nervous.I heard that it was because the mother's process of conceiving him was not smooth. Before him, she had accidentally shed a child that had formed in the womb. He was born prematurely, so his parents wanted to tie him with a rope forever, and they refused to make any mistakes in his education.Ji Ting felt that he could understand his parents' painstaking efforts, but for some reason, he was so eager to leave their side to take a breath, even for a while. Fortunately, his parents did not have any doubts until after the application form was handed in, perhaps because they thought it was only natural for their son to continue studying in the high school attached to G University, and there was no need to worry about it at all.Although the fifth middle school exam is difficult, Ji Ting is quite confident about his grades. As long as there are no major accidents, it is expected that he will receive the admission letter from the fifth middle school.Imagining in advance that his parents would be displeased but helpless, Ji Ting felt an uncontrollable joy in addition to being nervous.This kind of happiness even surpassed his joy when he won the honor of outstanding graduate with only three places in the whole year. The graduation ceremony of the junior high school was held together with that of the elementary school. Since the Zhiyi sisters were also graduating from elementary school, Gu Weizhen and Ji Peiwen attended the children's graduation ceremony together.When Ji Ting gave a speech as a graduate representative, seeing the gentle and handsome man on the stage and talking with his unique soft tone, not only Ji Peiwen and his wife's eyes were moist with pride, but even Gu Weizhen, who was an old friend The family also felt proud. However, the most surprising thing is that although Zhian, who has always been mischievous and mischievous, has caused headaches for the teacher, so she is definitely insulated from honors such as outstanding graduates, but she has to admit that she is still talented in studies. , the grades are still good, the homework is not very serious, and the tests are so-so, but the more important the test, the better the performance.She also often calls herself an "examination-type player". This time, she became the highest score in the primary school graduation examination.The teacher can not give her the Outstanding Graduate Award, but according to the usual practice, the "Study Excellence Award" that must be awarded to the first place in the graduation examination has to fall on her head. When the school leaders came to the stage to present the awards, all the award-winning students stood in a row. Even though Zhi An was standing on the stage, she still had a nonchalant smile on her face, but her group of cronies who grew up with her were whistling and whistling in the audience. Applause and cheer vigorously.She also cooperated with the school leader to present the award to her, and made a gesture of ecstatically kissing the award certificate, which caused laughter from the audience. Even Zhiyi, who had always been shy and quiet, stood up and applauded her sister vigorously. Ji Peiwen looked at Gu Weizhen and said, "Look, Zhi'an in your family is interesting." Gu Weizhen shook his head, "I'd be happy if this child is half as sensible as Ji Ting in your family. the most important." Ji Ting stood beside Zhi An, at this time he was only half a head taller than Zhi An, he watched Zhi An hold the certificate in his hand, and smiled brightly at the audience, the scorching sun in June seemed to be dimmed by it .He couldn't help showing a knowing smile, although Zhi'an wasn't as close as Zhiyi to him, but in his heart, she was also his sister, so he was really happy from the bottom of his heart. In the evening, the two families had dinner together at Ji's house. Ji Ting's mother, Xu Shuyun, worked in the kitchen all afternoon, and Wang Fan also went in to help.Gu Weizhen also brought good wine from his home that he was usually reluctant to drink, and planned to take this opportunity to have a few drinks with his old friends.As soon as he sat down, Gu Weizhen patted Ji Ting on the shoulder and praised him a lot. Although Ji Peiwen and his wife were modest, when they looked at their son, their joy was beyond words.While pouring the wine, Gu Weizhen also served Ji Tingman a glass, and said, "Ji Ting is so good, don't talk about making your parents look good, Uncle Gu is also happy to see it, and you should drink some today." Ji Ting didn't say anything, Xu Shuyun smiled and said to stop him, "He's still a child, he doesn't know how to drink any wine, you two big men just drink." But Ji Peiwen smiled at his wife: "Boy, it's okay to drink a little. He is usually not allowed to drink. It's rare to be happy today. It's okay if he wants to drink." Xu Shuyun didn't say anything. Looking at the transparent liquid in the small wine glass in front of him, Ji Ting couldn't help but feel troubled. To be honest, he has never touched a drop of alcohol since he was a child, but seeing so many people who are good at drinking in novels and TV, it seems that this wine is He felt a little curious about the fine liquid, so he held it up to his nose and sniffed it. The pungent smell made him hesitate again. Zhi Yi watched from the side, pursed her lips and said with a smile: "Brother Ji Ting should stop drinking, it doesn't look like anything delicious." Ji Ting was about to put down the wine glass, but Zhi An leaned over and picked up his wine, "Let me see how delicious the wine is." Gu Weizhen frowned and said, "Little girls are not allowed to drink alcohol, what do they look like?" Zhi An curled his lips, put the wine glass to his lips and licked the liquid inside, then smacked his tongue and said, "It's nothing, but that's the taste." He wiped his lips with the back of his hand, and handed the wine back to Ji Ting , raised his eyebrows, and looked at Ji Ting with a smile, as if silently provoking.Ji Ting took the wine, raised his head and drank it silently. He didn't expect the wine to be so spicy, so he coughed non-stop. Back, Zhi Yi hurriedly brought him a drink. Zhi An sneered and said, "As for it?" Wang Fan, who seldom spoke harsh words to her, also said, "You kid, why are you talking? Brother Ji Ting won't drink it down if you don't provoke him." "Which one of you heard me tell him to drink." Zhi An was not convinced.At this time, Ji Ting had generally calmed down. He didn't know whether it was because of choking, alcohol, or shame. His fair face was flushed. He heard Wang Fan blame Zhi'an, and said quickly: "Aunt Wang, don't you?" The thing about Guan Zhi'an is that I don't know how to drink, and I'm in a hurry again." Ji Peiwen also said: "What are you blaming her for? Our family, Ji Ting, doesn't know how to drink." "You can't even drink this little wine, and you say it's a boy." Zhi An didn't just accept it, and added another sentence. Ji Ting's face turned even redder.Gu Weizhen faced Zhi'an and reprimanded: "What do you know? If you can learn a little bit from your brother Ji Ting, we don't know how much peace of mind we have." Zhi An raised his head, "What's so good about him, isn't he just an excellent graduate? What's so special about him?" Gu Weizhen was so angry that the veins on his forehead were throbbing: "You have never gotten such a rare thing, how can I have a daughter like you." Seeing that the atmosphere was going downhill, Xu Shuyun hurriedly smoothed things over: "Old Gu, Zhi'an is still a child, why are you so serious?" Zhi Yi, who had been silent all this time, put down her chopsticks and said softly: "Father, Zhi An also came to the stage to accept the award today, why do you only remember that brother Ji Ting won the award, and no one mentioned Zhi An?" After saying this, the adults present looked at each other in blank dismay, and Gu Weizhen was speechless for a while. At this time, Zhi'an stood up and said to his sister: "Who cares about their praise? Anyway, they only have one daughter in their eyes." After speaking, he pushed the stool back, left the dinner table, and ran out of Ji's house. "Zhi'an!" Zhiyi yelled, seeing that she ignored her, she also stood up, "Mom and Dad, I'll go and see her." Then she followed her out. Ji Ting also wanted to go, but only felt dizzy for a while.The other four adults froze for a while, then began to eat in silence again.After a while, Ji Peiwen still spoke, "Old Gu, to be honest, do you think this is fair to Zhi'an?" Gu Weizhen hesitated to speak, and sighed.Wang Fan glanced at her husband, and then said: "Zhi'an's grades have always been good, we don't know about it, but this child is too impatient, we hope that she will be restrained in other aspects besides studying well. What's more , Zhiyi didn't do well in the exam this time, we were afraid of praising my sister, but it hurt her heart... Pity the parents of the world, but I really didn't expect it to be like this..." Ji Peiwen was silent for a while, and then said again: "Is it really because of this? Weizhen, Wang Fan, you can understand some things without telling me, I'm not asking about your family affairs, but although the children are young, they have something in their hearts. Felt……" Seeing the sad look on Wang Fan's face, Xu Shuyun hurriedly gave her husband a hand, "Don't talk, let's eat, Zhi'an is just throwing a child's temper for a while, it's fine." The four continued to eat.Ji Ting was confused when he heard this, but he knew that he shouldn't talk too much at this time. He felt that his head hurt even more, so he simply got up and said, "Uncle Gu, Aunt Wang, Dad, Mom, I'm a little dizzy, let's go into the room Lie down."