Chapter 2 Chapter One

Shi Yan used to be very advocating love at first sight, thinking that only love at first sight is true love, because people's first impression is the most true and accurate, like that at first looks very unpleasant, but then gradually overcome and get used to it , The relationship that finally survives to the point where it can be tolerated is not love at all, it is just make do at best. In a word, true love does not come out of "habit", not "cultivation", not "endurance", but love at first sight, automatic outbreak, uncontrollable.The love cultivated is not called "love", at most it can only be called "feeling" or "family affection".

She is so superstitious about first impressions, it is groundless, and there is still a lot of evidence.When she was in high school, there was a male classmate named Huang Hai in her class. He was so ugly that it was terrifying. Everyone called him "The Clock Tower Freak" behind his back.At first she didn't even dare to look at him, she felt terrified when she saw him, and she didn't understand how his parents and family survived. But after a while, she seemed to be getting more courageous, and dared to look at it once or twice.Later, I found out that Huang Hai is quite smart, not just ordinary smart, but really smart, he is very good in all subjects and treats people very well, so she no longer thinks he is scary, and sometimes dares to discuss study problems with him up.

In the year of the college entrance examination, Huang Hai was expected to be the first in the province, and was admitted to the prestigious A University. Before leaving, he went to her house to say goodbye.Her mother heard that the boy who was admitted to University A was coming, and she was very welcome. She cleaned up the house specially, and asked for leave to stay at home to wait for the famous school student. I don't know if it was to protect her daughter secretly, or to see what happened. What kind of rare birds and animals can get into A University. As a result, as soon as Huang Hai came to the door, her mother almost fell ill from fright, she didn't even dare to look at him, and kept looking away when she was talking.After Huang Hai left, her mother gave her a long report, warning her not to fall in love with that Huang Hai.After she swears and swears that she did not fall in love with Huang Hai, and will never fall in love with Huang Hai, her mother breathed a sigh of relief, but still asked with lingering fear: "Why are there such... ugly people? Do you usually... dare you?" Dare to talk to him?"

"Why don't you dare talk to him?" "His... are his parents like this too?" "No, I heard that when he was born, he was clamped like this by the doctor with some forceps..." Her mother was stunned for a while, and said: "Why did you just pinch your face? There are many forceps used when giving birth, and I have never seen it clamped like this. At most, the head is pinched, and the intelligence is affected a little bit." ..." "Then he's lucky, he only got his face crushed, if his head is crushed...he won't be able to get into A University..."

"If it's like this, even if you are admitted to the University of A, what can you do...for the rest of your life...won't you be...unhappy?" Shi Yan didn't think so at all at the time. In her opinion, as long as she could be admitted to University A, even if she was as ugly as Huang Hai, she would be happy, and she didn't think Huang Hai was ugly anymore.But she still understands her mother quite well, recalling how she felt when she saw Huang Hai for the first time, she should not be much better than her mother, but after being together for a long time, she gradually got used to it.

It seems that the first impression is still accurate. Later, I heard that Huang Hai found a very beautiful girlfriend in college, as beautiful as Esmeralda in the movie, but everyone didn't believe it. How could there be a beautiful girl in a school like University A?Even if there was, it would not be Huang Hai's turn. Is it because Huang Hai looks like "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" that people say that his girlfriend looks like Esmeralda? But one summer, Huang Hai brought his girlfriend back to his hometown, which greatly opened everyone's horizons.Although everyone was secretly disappointed that the girl was not as beautiful as Esmeralda, but Huang Hai was so ugly, yet he found a girlfriend who wasn't ugly, which still felt a bit reckless.

Later, the girl flirted with Huang Hai as everyone expected. I heard that it was the same summer vacation, and the girl also took Huang Hai back to her hometown, but she resolutely broke up with Huang Hai when she returned to school. Huang Hai was the only classmate Shi Yan kept in touch with after graduating from high school, and probably she was also the only classmate who kept in touch with Huang Hai after graduating from high school, because Huang Hai seemed to regard her as a confidant, and wrote long letters to her for almost half a year. Each letter is about his love story with that girl and his troubles after losing love.

Shi Yan just wanted to be a silent listener, and didn't want to express her opinion, because she also felt that it was too bad for the girl to be with Huang Hai.Everyone has the love of beauty, and the hate of ugliness probably also has it.The Hunchback of the Clock Tower in the movie is so kind to Esmeralda, didn't he not get Esmeralda's love in the end?On the contrary, it was the hypocritical playboy who cheated Esmeralda's love.It can be seen that if a boy wants to impress a girl with his character and intelligence, he must at least be decent in appearance.If the appearance is too bad, the smartest way is not to fall in love with those beautiful girls, otherwise, even if he can pass the test of girls, he will not be able to pass the test of the masses.

She guessed that the girl must have known Huang Hai for a long time, and gradually got used to his appearance, so his talent and character prevailed, making the girl fall in love with him.Although they have also been to Huang Hai's hometown, the fellow villagers of Huang Hai have long been used to seeing Huang Hai's "Monster in the Clock Tower", so no one is too surprised.But after the girl brought Huang Hai back to her own hometown, it was the first time for the people there to see such a strange person, and they had no chance to see his intelligence and kindness, so they would inevitably make a fuss. In other words, the girl's love was drowned in saliva.

During that time, Huang Hai was in so much pain that he said he was the most unfortunate person in the world. If he had known this, he might as well have asked the doctor who delivered the baby to clamp him to death with forceps, or he might as well not have clamped him at all. Let him suffocate to death in his mother's womb. Shi Yan was so frightened that she quickly comforted him and said, "You are so smart and you went to such a good school, how can you say you are the most unfortunate person? I don't know how many people want to change places with you!" Huang Hai was still desperate: "Who wants to change places with me? Do you want to change places with me?"

Shi Yan really wanted to change places with him, but she didn't want to barter, completely change positions with Huang Hai, but partly, with reservations, without changing appearance or intelligence, because she felt that Her intelligence is not that low. When she was in high school, she and Huang Hai often monopolized the top one or two places in the whole year, but the C Provincial Teachers College she studied in was several times worse than Huang Hai's A University. , so she just wanted to change schools. Fortunately, in real life, she can't switch places with Huang Hai. If she could, it would be a bit difficult for her, because she wanted to get into Huang Hai's A University, but didn't want to be as ugly as Huang Hai. She would be reduced to study at the Teachers College in Province C. Many people said that she was "misunderstood by her cleverness", and she felt quite wronged after hearing that. "Smartness is misunderstood by cleverness" seems to refer to those who rely on their own little cleverness, so they don't study hard, love to play tricks, and suffer a disadvantage.This is not the case with her at all. She has always studied hard, never complacent because of good grades, and she never plays tricks in her studies. The reason why she was reduced to the C Provincial Teachers Academy seems to be difficult to explain clearly in a sentence or two. Her parents were both engineers and technicians in military factories, and they built ships for the People's Navy.In the era of "preparing for war, preparing for famine, and serving the people", the entire military factory moved to a small valley with all its people and machines.Probably to fool U.S. imperialism and Soviet revisionism, the factory deliberately moved to a place not near the sea, and was divided into several branches, which were scattered and hidden in several valleys. Then transport it somewhere to assemble it, so that not only can it hide from the US imperialists and Soviet revisionists who are far away overseas, but also hide from those counter-revolutionaries hidden inside us. Those branch factories didn't have names, only code names. Perhaps the bombs of US Emperor Suxiu recognized their names. If you knew the name of the factory, you would know where to throw the bombs.The code names of each branch factory are also very cryptic, using only numbers instead of words, from 001 to 009.Coincidentally, the number of the branch factory where Shi Yan's parents were located happened to be "007". The reading method is "Dongdongguai".Other branch factories all use this pronunciation, "Dongdongyao", "Dongdongliang"... Anyway, they are all "Dongdong". This trick seems to be very effective. The factory has been moved to a small valley for so many years. It has never been bombed by the US imperialists and Soviet revisionists, nor has it been destroyed by counter-revolutionaries hidden among the people. I and my family members are bored enough, staying in such a ghostly place that does not touch the sky and the ground, there is no bus, train, or plane, and the factory cars are used to go in and out of the mountains. Like the little carrot head in "Sister Jiang", she nests in that small ravine and rarely goes out to see the world. Shi Yan was educated all the way up in the school for the children of "Dongdongguai". Primary school and junior high school didn't go out of the ravine. When she was in high school, she became a golden phoenix and flew out of the ravine of "Dongdongguai". , but just flew to another ravine, because the high school is in another ravine, from "Dongdongyao" to "Dongdonggou", all the children who are admitted to high school go to high school there.