Chapter 37 Chapter 36 Beyond the World (No.197 - No.203)

My dad and Aunt Qi worked overtime respectively, and my dad sent me a text message asking me to get money from the drawer and take Xiao Linfan out for dinner at night. There happened to be a new restaurant downstairs from my house. It was named "Intercontinental Hotel" with a very imposing name. It was embarrassing to step in if you didn't straighten your collar before entering the door.The location of this corner is very magical. Since I moved here ten years ago, the storefront facing the street has probably changed more than a dozen facades, from beauty salons to bath centers, from nightclubs to various big hotels...

The key is that no matter what you open, it will not be able to open, and it will be closed within half a year. The food street in our city lacks the spirit of innovation. If something becomes popular in other places, our city can bloom everywhere without restraint.Leslie Cheung and Anita Yuen's "Man and Han Banquet" became popular, and "Man and Han Towers" were everywhere in our city; Xiaolongbao was introduced to the north, and "Kaifeng Soup Dumplings" were everywhere in our city; not to mention the later "boiled fish".However, thanks to the highly mobile store downstairs, no matter what is popular in the market, I can wait for a new owner who is not afraid of death to open the same store.

The phenomenon of "following the trend to death" has been repeated several times. The catering industry has learned from the pain and never dared to introduce new dishes. Finally, they have all returned to the traditional model of "Regal Seafood Restaurant", which is bragging and not paying taxes. . I put on my hat and scarf, took Xiao Linfan downstairs, and asked him if he wanted to eat "KFC" or "Intercontinental Hotel". Unexpectedly, he shook his head firmly and said that he wanted to go to the street corner to buy "Tujia Dregs Biscuits" "eat.

Oh, by the way, the most popular thing here this year is the "Tujia Dregs Biscuits" packaged in a square kraft paper bag. Another generation of new food in the form of a small window has sparked a prairie fire. After getting along for a period of time, I gradually understood Xiao Linfan's character: as long as he likes a certain food, he will persistently eat it until he hears its name and his face changes.Such as shrimp, such as dregs children sesame cake. "The InterContinental Hotel has shrimps in bamboo tubes, don't you want to eat them?" Lin Fan quickly fell into the battle between heaven and man.

"Why don't we go buy the Zha'er Biscuits first, and then go to the restaurant to order shrimp in bamboo tubes, okay, sister?" He looked up at me with bright eyes. I know, now I am his goddess. I eat very little.Most of the bamboo tube shrimps were left to Xiao Linfan, and he ate half a bowl of rice with tiger skin pepper and salt and pepper tenderloin. "My sister gives it to you!" Xiao Linfan found out about my abnormality, and took out two strings of shrimps from the bamboo tube in awe-inspiring manner, although his expression was very reluctant when he did so.

"My sister is not hungry," I shook my head, "I wanted to eat less." "why?" "Why are there so many, I can't eat it." "Do you want to lose weight?" I choked. "No," I shook my head. "Where did you hear all this nonsense, you little brat?" "It was my tablemate who said she wanted to lose weight." Xiao Linfan bit the prawn and rolled it off the bamboo stick, and said vaguely, "She is getting fat, and we don't want to sit at the same table with her. Squeezed to death." "She's only as old as she is, so she should lose weight," I said angrily, "Look at what you've made a girl who is less than ten years old."

"What does it have to do with us?" Xiao Linfan raised his voice aggrievedly, this was the first time he told me about their class, "I told her every day to let her make room for me, so that she would not She dropped the crumbs of snacks all over the floor, and she never paid any attention to me! She still laughed at me for being short!" I like to see how this little boy is eager to explain. He gradually began to regard me as his own sister, and his speech became more and more casual. He is no longer the kitten who hid away and buried his head in eating shrimp when we first met.

"Well, since she doesn't care what you say about her, why is she suddenly trying to lose weight?" I asked. "We are going to hold a broadcasting exercise competition. When we were queuing up, the sports committee singled out her and a few other very fat boys and told them not to play. Because she likes the sports committee, hahahahahaha, so she cried on the spot .” The last sentence "Because of that hahahaha" was casually uttered by Xiao Linfan, a late bloomer who had not yet been hit by puberty, and I seemed to hear the sound of the little chubby girl's glass heart shattering.

"Women are those who please themselves, do you know this saying?" Xiao Lin Fan buried his whole face in the bag of sesame seed cakes. I only saw a brown paper bag shaking his head at me. You don't understand, I know you don't understand. I know. I pushed the bowl forward and didn't want to eat any more. After leaving the restaurant, we both went to a nearby grocery store to buy candied haws.I originally wanted to eat them together on the way back, but the wind at night in winter was so strong that I covered my whole head with a scarf, so I couldn’t show my mouth at all. A pair of eyes blinked and blinked, like a little mummy.

Finally running into the corridor, I quickly tore off the scarf, which had already frozen due to the moisture I breathed, and the more I surrounded it, the colder it became. "Alright, alright, you can eat candied haws." I also took off Lin Fan's scarf. "Sister, I think you are really nice." Before opening his mouth to take the first bite of candied haws, Xiao Linfan blinked and said flatteringly. "Is it because of the slag cake, bamboo tube shrimp and candied haws? Or is it because you failed the exam?" Lin Fan smiled embarrassingly, and ran upstairs in two steps while eating candied haws, spreading sugar sprinkles all over the scarf.

"No, I'm telling the truth." He thought for a while, and used a somewhat advanced vocabulary for a third-grade boy, "Speaking of feelings." I smiled: "Then what do you think about my sister?" Lin Fan fell into an embarrassing contemplation, and I couldn't help but talk to him to save face: "Do you think my sister is pretty?" I just dare to ask him, who else can I bully at the bottom of the food chain? "It's beautiful!" He opened his mouth and came. "Answer me well!" "Really! My sister is the most beautiful." He said with big eyes twinkling. "Where is the beauty?" I suddenly looked forward to his answer. "...the beauty of the soul." When Xiao Linfan was obediently doing homework at home, I sat on the floor of my room in a daze. I didn't feel so bad either.I don't even know what I'm thinking, it's just that no matter what I do, I feel lost. I changed all the clothes on my body into home clothes, and then carried the red attachment bear to study, why is it not good-looking?This is also a good brand, why is it not as good-looking as others?Jeans are understandable, I’m afraid of the cold, so I put on a pair of thick long johns inside, and it’s good enough to wear them every day after a lot of effort, so I don’t expect them to be as loose and stylish as Ling Xiangqian’s pants. My eyes accidentally fell on the reflection of the wardrobe glass, so I crawled over and looked at myself carefully. Don't look at the face, don't look at the face. I finally discovered the reason why I don’t look good in a bear sweater: I’m not really skinny. Although my arms are thin, I still have flesh on my back. This sweater is not a loose-fitting style. If you look thin, wearing a shirt underneath will make you look even more burly. I piled it up pityingly.You die in the closet, bye. Immediately afterwards, I inevitably looked at my face: Although it is not as beautiful as hers, it can be considered to have good facial features, and there are not many acnes, but it is a bit rough.Is it because the cream is not right for me?Right, my face is oily every time I wipe it off, how can it look good? This is also a problem. I was so engrossed in watching it that when my dad came home and opened the door of my room, what he saw was his daughter kneeling on the ground, with her face pressed against the glass of the big wardrobe in a strange gesture. "You... what are you doing?" he asked. I didn't answer, but stared at my dad's face and asked, "Dad, why can someone not wear long johns?" One of the most endearing things about my dad is that he was never as suspicious as my mother was.In this case, my mother would definitely stick to the theme and scold me with a frown: "I'm the one who asked you what you're doing now. It's none of your business whether others wear long johns or not? What are you doing looking in the mirror?" And my dad will gently follow me to change the subject: "If you don't wear long johns, maybe you are not afraid of the cold. Many foreigners have better physiques than us because they exercise all the year round and like to eat meat, eggs and milk. They only wear shorts in winter." .” Not only does it change the subject, but it can also go a long way. I shook my head: "I mean the same age as me, girl, and thinner than me." My dad thought for a while: "It's stinky." Right, how could it not be cold?I take it for granted. "But is it possible that she goes to school in a private car with heating, and when she enters the teaching building, there is also heating, which is warmer than at home, so she doesn't need to wear it?" My dad made a convincing hypothesis. Ling Xiangqian looked very rich at first glance, it should be, um.but…… "We still have to stand outside for a long time for physical education class, inter-class exercises, and raising the flag on Monday morning!" I argued. "Just bear it and let it go." My dad retorted with a pleasant face. Yes, how can there be things without price in the world! "Or maybe she's wearing a very thin infrared thermal underwear, which is often sold on TV shopping, such as Antarctic people, counterclockwise..." My eyes lit up.Yes, who stipulated that such thick long johns must be worn?When I was a child, I still wore the suspender cotton trousers that my grandma made for me. Isn’t it also eliminated now?Science and technology are advancing, and mankind is developing! "Thank you, Dad!" I smiled. The stark difference between my dad and my mom was laid bare.He didn't even ask me why I asked these questions, just smiled and said don't sit on the ground, it's cold on the ground-then closed the door and went out. The next question is how to avoid my mother's big mine. I have to ask my mother to accompany me to buy clothes.I'm a tiger, and I'm seventeen now, but I haven't bought clothes by myself.I have never been to the three famous clothing wholesale markets in our city, because my mother said that the girls in our class who go chatting together on weekends to find hairpins, nail polish and small skirts are "not serious". Knocking over a boatload of people in one blow to prove her correctness has always been my mom's forte. More importantly, I have no money.My dad gives me 20 yuan pocket money every day, which is used to take the bus and buy lunch. I have about 10 yuan left every day, but whenever I need to spend a lot of money, I look in my pocket and find that they don’t know. Where did you go. Having said that, except for weekends, ten yuan a day, even if you save it for a month, you can't buy a few nice clothes, right? So I still have to convince my mom. It's not hard to get her to accompany me around, but I'll die terribly if I don't hide my real intentions with the utmost care. My mother never hesitates to spend money on me, but I mean eating fast food, buying books, learning talents, and taking extra-curricular cram schools. As for clothes and toys that can be taken out, hehe, let’s not talk about it. In her words, I don't spend money to keep you from learning well. She believes that girls start to pay attention to hair style and grooming, which is an important symptom of not learning well—that is, puppy love—so I still wear boys’ hair that is half-length but not short. In fact, she was right... I was apprehensive and began to toss and turn on the bed. In my mind, for a while, Ling Xiangqian looked up at Chu Tiankuo's silhouette slightly, and for a while, Wen Xiaoxiao raised her glasses and said gracefully, "Well, you go hard". How can I make my mother understand that I am neither trying to imitate the beauty of the school belle, nor buying clothes, losing weight, or becoming beautiful just to seduce a boy who is not enlightened at all. Even though I knew he'd be enlightened one day, I'd like him to see the changes in me at a glance, but it really isn't, at least not for these specific and narrow reasons. I can't tell. I started to develop breasts in the fifth grade of primary school (although they both seemed to have started and didn’t follow up), and my aunt arrived in the second grade of junior high school, but until today, I suddenly felt the feeling of puberty. Start wanting to shine, want to be different from others, want to get a little attention, preferably from the person you want. Although the TV programs full of screens are educating the audience not to follow blindly, but to "be yourself"-but "self" can also be divided into a better self and a worse self, isn't it? However, I knew what my mom would say. A better you comes from better grades. No, that's really not the case. I was full of melancholy, and my head was a mess that I couldn't figure out. I didn't know when I slowly fell asleep. I didn't have any good dreams all night, either I couldn't catch up with the exam, or I was caught stealing things, anyway, I needed to run wildly.In the dream, I use my hands and feet like a dog, but I still run so slowly. My dad always said that dreams are a reflection of reality. Isn’t this reflection too bullying? If it weren't for being late for school, I might still be tangling in front of the closet for a while.I sadly found that I basically rotated those few clothes in winter, and when I sentenced the red sweater to death, I lost 20% of my options. In the end, I was aggrieved and put on a dark blue hoodie to go to school. But during the lunch break, I actually received a call from my mother. It seems that the "clothes, clothes, clothes, clothes" radio waves I sent to the universe were successfully received by my mother. My mother said that she went on a business trip some time ago, and she just came back yesterday. She will be resting this weekend and wants to take me out for dinner. I was ecstatic in my heart, but I still pretended to be calm and expressed the hope that she would have a good rest. If she was too tired, it would take a while. I'm fine, so she doesn't need to worry too much. Then, my mother thought for a moment. I instantly wanted to slap myself with my free hand. Fortunately, she finally said that she is not tired, just this weekend. The second class in the afternoon is Lai Chunyang's English.After the last incident of snatching a white blade with empty hands, Lai Chunyang called my name a few times and asked me to answer questions. The so-called vicious circle is probably that I became the only person in the whole class who paid attention to Lai Chunyang. Since I made eye contact with her, she especially liked to point me up to answer questions, and let go of other students who pleaded guilty and sneaked away quietly; I also wanted to lower my head to avoid it, but she couldn't find my focused gaze, and felt that I was slipping away, so she would immediately wake me up. English class has become a complete torment.Death β also gloated and said that I was Teacher Lai's favorite student. Everyone is happy to see it happen, because I alone attracted all the artillery fire. But, you know, it's too early to speak. After finishing the grammar, Lai Chunyang asked everyone to take out the practice papers that were issued last time, and began to lecture on the exercises in her usual half-dead rhythm.The anger in the class relaxed, and β turned around and winked at me maliciously. I sighed and had no choice but to pretend to be listening carefully, always ready to be cheered up by Lai Chunyang. "Many students told me that cloze always makes a lot of mistakes, and they don't understand why. I remember I told you many times that to do cloze well, you can't read every sentence in isolation. The word here may be grammatically correct, but in context, does it accurately express the author's writing intention?" After slowly finishing this passage, Lai Chunyang fell into Lai's silence again. Alarm bells were ringing in my heart. And now, except for me, no one in the class will take this silence seriously anymore. "So let's look at question 37." Lai Chunyang finished his fugue and continued to speak.I was both relaxed and regretful, and I was tense for more than half a minute. "Question 37, I think many students will make mistakes. The four words are all nouns, and they are all uncountable nouns. Which one to fill in is not grammatically wrong. However, according to what I just said, in relation to the context, first What is excluded is feeling, then what?" She scans the class, and my hairs stand on end. "Obviously, the next intelligence, intelligence, is not right either." The alarm went off again. "Information, information, this option is very confusing, but it is not difficult to rule out. The main purpose of this article is related to reading and learning, and this word is still inaccurate here. So, what does the author want to say? The author wants to say The most important thing is that knowledge is the wealth left to readers by reading. Then..." Lai Chunyang suddenly looked at me. Although I was mentally prepared, I was still taken aback by her.The three options have been ruled out. Didn't she say all the answers? Choose C, knowledge. Lai Chunyang was about to call my name when he suddenly turned his eyes and fixed on Yu Huai beside me who was immersed in calculations until he was isolated from the world. My heart skipped a beat, and before I had time to kick him, Lai Chunyang's sharp voice pierced through the classroom and slammed into my face: "Yu Huai!!!" Yu Huai's act of standing up immediately was purely a conditioned reflex. He was quite surprised when he saw Lai Chunyang, because he had been immersed in his studies since Granny Zhang's Chinese class last session, and he hadn't moved a bit after class. Now he suddenly looked up and saw Lai Chunyang, I guess it feels like a world away... "Come on, tell me, what is knowledge?" I breathed a sigh of relief, I wanted to secretly point out the position on the test paper to him, but it seems that there is no need, Lai Chunyang is quite kind. However, Yu Huai looked at the blackboard in a daze like never before. "knowledge is power?" Lai Chunyang vomited blood and left. In the face of everyone's unanimous praise, Yu Huai modestly expressed that he had too much knowledge and learned too much. The third class was still a chorus rehearsal. Before class, the classroom was full of chaos. I sat on the seat and wiped the camera lens, while Yu Huai put on his coat and was packing his things. "Going to the administrative district again?" I asked. He was about to speak when he suddenly raised his head and looked somewhere in the front row.I followed suit. Standing in front of the podium, Wen Xiaoxiao smiled at Yu Huai with a warm smile of "Don't worry, I'll cover you". Yu Huai also smiled at her, and nodded gratefully. Before Wen Xiaoxiao's eyes fell on me, I turned my head and pretended not to see their conversation. "The exam will be on Saturday morning." He said to me before leaving. Isn't that tomorrow? I stared at his hurried back until he disappeared through the back door.No one else noticed Yu Huai's departure, but I knew Wen Xiaoxiao was also watching. Thanks to Xu Yanliang, I no longer have to painfully sing along with them line by line.Although many people were uncomfortable when they stood in the middle of the classroom with a camera to take pictures for the first time, but gradually, no one noticed my existence. They sang naturally in front of my camera, slipped away naturally, secretly lowered their heads to do the questions naturally, looked impatient naturally, and smiled naturally. I love to photograph them. I can't explain the feeling.Like the moment I picked up the camera, I was no longer Geng Geng who only had five winter clothes, nor was I a small person who couldn't afford everything.Taking pictures didn't make me stand out much, but it made me forget all my troubles for a while. I like vivid people appearing in my frame, and I like that I can capture the best timing with the most accuracy every time.People always prefer to do what they do well, for example, I like to take pictures of others. Every expression and movement is like a parabola, with the fullest apex. Even though this digital camera always responds slowly, I can always freeze at that moment. Thanks to this camera, it puts me on the outside of the world. Yu Huai came back after school was almost over.Today is Friday, and there are still ten minutes before the school bell rings, but everyone has already started to be restless. And Yu Huai was surprisingly quiet. After he came back, he stopped writing and writing. He sat on the spot and turned his head to look out the window. His face was full of nostalgia for life, and he looked weird. "Yu Huai, hello, are you okay?" I didn't want to interrupt his meditation, but I was the one sitting by the window. He looked at the scenery here, and my ears were inevitably burned by the sight. "It's okay," he smiled and pushed a notebook from the table to me, and said in a calm and kind tone, "Go and return it to Senior Sheng Huainan, this is your reward." "Brother, don't be like this..." "What's the matter with me?" His eyes were so wide that he didn't even look at me. "You give me the feeling that I'm going to surrender as soon as school is over." As soon as I finished speaking, he couldn't hold back his laughter. Finally feeling a little normal. Under my questioning, Yu Huai finally said coyly that he was nervous and felt that he would die tomorrow, because a certain part of electromagnetism is still a bit difficult to use. A rope was hanged in the examination room. "I have prayed countless times to God to let you experience my mental journey, and it has really come true. Heaven has eyes." Before I finished speaking, I suddenly had a flash of inspiration. I rummaged through the pen bag for a long time, found a thin ballpoint pen, turned my head and gave Yu Huai a lewd smile, and was satisfied to see that his expression was a little stiff. "What are you smoking?" I smiled and said nothing, raised my right hand, clamped the ballpoint pen with my index finger and middle finger, and then pushed up the button on the bottom of the ballpoint pen with my thumb from below very slowly, squinting to watch the tip of the pen come out little by little. head. In the middle, I flicked the pen holder with my left hand to make it look like it was blowing out air bubbles. "Don't be afraid, Auntie will give you a sedative to relieve tension, promote sleep, and ensure that you will do well in the exam tomorrow. There is no electromagnetics on the paper. Come on, roll up your sleeves!" "Shouldn't you take off your pants?" "How are you playing a hooligan!" I was anxious. Yu Huai's loud laughter was drowned out by the bell after class.The students in the class stood up one after another to pack their schoolbags, and the room became noisy like a boiling pot. Only Yu Huai and I remained sitting still. He actually rolled up his sleeves, exposed his upper arms, and pretended to be "sick of needles" in horror.But I concentrated on bringing the nib close to his arm, stabbed it down gently, and slowly pushed the spring to the top. Before pulling out the needle, I drew a check mark on his arm. "This is a lucky charm, don't take a shower tonight, keep it, it will be all right tomorrow!" I smiled and patted his arm. Yu Huai looked at me with a strange expression, wanting to laugh, disgusted, and moved. "What's wrong?" I don't understand. "...Non-minded." He cursed, got up quickly, put on his coat, picked up his schoolbag, turned around and left. After taking two steps, he turned around again, facing me who was still in a daze, and solemnly patted his left arm where I had just had an injection. "The effect is good," he said.