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Chapter 8 Green Campus

I can't bear to see your happiness, and it makes me sad!do not!It is a common thing in life to gather and part, no matter what, we will always have a day when we let go with tears in our eyes!
The silent time, when you lean against the window to listen to the rain, and sit in the pavilion to watch the clouds, drift away.People walk in the world, must wear different masks.Not because of hypocrisy, but because of the need to follow nature and adapt to the environment in many cases.If you can't change your life, you must change for your life. Zhang Ailing already understood this truth when she was very young.Her father remarried, making her tired of returning to that gloomy home.She was saddened to see her brother being abused with nowhere to run.Faced with her stepmother's cynicism, she was helpless and felt extremely humiliated.She once looked at her crying face in the mirror, gritted her teeth and swore: "One day I will take revenge."

Although Zhang Ailing said later, middle school was unpleasant.She felt depressed in her heart, and she was always silent in the face of helpless personnel.As long as you leave the cloud of opium at home and come to your aunt's house or at school, life is as simple as water, as clear as a painting. Zhang Ailing's middle school days were not all gloomy.She also had the pure happiness of many little girls, and the romantic time hand in hand with spring.Indeed, her personality is introverted, her aesthetic talent is better than that of her peers, and she has always paid no attention to trivial matters in life.But she also often goes shopping and watching movies with her cousins, and takes her younger brother to buy snacks.

When meeting strangers, she is mostly silent.She is very cheerful only when she is with her cousins ​​and close classmates.Especially when talking about her favorite novels, movies and plays, she is even more energetic and eloquent.At that time, you will completely forget that she is a girl with an indifferent temperament and a dark heart. Therefore, everyone has multiple personalities, and will express different selves in different environments.Or cheerful, or indifferent; or simple, or sophisticated.People may only take off the mask of walking in the world when they face their own souls, and see the truest self.Because even if you are with the person you are holding hands with, it is inevitable that there will be alienation and loneliness.

Zhang Ailing became obsessed with writing in middle school, and began to work alone at her desk when no one was prepared.Because she loves reading so much, she was already short-sighted when she was in middle school, and she was equipped with a pair of glasses.She is tall and thin, and her simple clothes cannot hide her elegant and bookish taste.Maybe she is not beautiful enough, but she has always given people an extraordinary and extraordinary feeling.Some people say that for a talented woman like her, as long as she is destined to rub shoulders with her, she will definitely look back at her.

Twelve-year-old Eileen Chang published her first novel "Unfortunate She" in the school magazine "Fengzao" of St. Mary's Girls' School.Although there are only a short 1,400 words and the plot is relatively immature, it is undoubtedly a surprise for a girl who is only twelve years old; it is also a beautiful and extraordinary beginning for her writing career. . "Unfortunate She" describes the tragic process of a pure and beautiful woman being destroyed. Facing fate, the hostess can only escape and spend the rest of her life wandering. "I can't bear to see your happiness, which makes me miserable! Farewell! It's a common thing in life to come and go, no matter what, we will always have a day when we let go with tears in our eyes!" What a helpless and sober text, we always There is a day when I let go with tears in my eyes.At that time, Zhang Ailing had long been used to the ups and downs of life, and facing parting, she learned to be indifferent in front of others, and she turned around and shed tears.She knows that most of the journey of life can only be done alone.

In the second year, Eileen Chang published her first essay "Late Twilight" in the school magazine "Fengzao" of St. Mary's Girls' School.This prose expresses her inappropriate thoughts at this age.In the colorful and dizzying spring, she lamented that the fleeting life of life is not as enviable as the fleeting butterflies.In her Mood for Love, what she saw should be the lush scenery of green mountains and clear waters.But with a lot of thoughts on her mind, she lamented that life is so cloudy and beauties are twilight.Perhaps this is Zhang Ailing's detachment, let us see a girl, guarding the dusk of patterns, watching the time of flowing water, slowly going away, going away.

Zhang Ailing fell in love with her time at school. She was talented and intelligent, and she got A or A in all subjects.Most importantly, at school she was free to write.Hearing the teacher's praise and seeing the appreciative eyes of her classmates, she felt a little comfort and pride in her heart.That kind of deep love for words is even more eager to move on nights where the stars are sparse for many months. Eileen Chang likes to take Chinese (Chinese) classes, and it just so happens that the school has a talented and insightful teacher Wang who attaches great importance to Chinese.Teacher Wang first noticed Zhang Ailing because of her self-proposed composition "Looking at the Cloud".The writing is chic and the words are gorgeous.After that, Teacher Wang began to pay attention to Zhang Ailing involuntarily.At that time, Eileen Chang was sitting in the last seat in the last row because of her height. She was always expressionless and dressed casually.She is not beautiful, but she has a different temperament that makes people look back frequently.

Zhang Ailing loves writing and has outstanding talents. Apart from contributing to the school's publications, she does not participate in any other poetry gatherings or singing groups.The impression that this special girl gave to teachers and classmates was that she was proud and indifferent.She refuses to be vulgar, so it is always difficult to catch her figure in the crowd.But the name Zhang Ailing seems to be everywhere. After that, Zhang Ailing published novels, "Three Reading Reports", "Ruoxin Review" in the school's "Guoxing" publication, and "On the Future of Cartoon Painting" in "Fengzao".Among them, it has won the attention and love of the majority of teachers and students.Teacher Wang praised this article even more: "Compared with Guo Moruo's "Death of the Overlord of Chu" (Note: It should be "The Suicide of the Overlord of Chu"), it can be said that it is even worse than that. The future is immeasurable!"

The concubine Yu in this novel was not when Xiang Yu failed, she was forced to die because of the end of the road, she died in the process of leading to decline after she died in the heyday.This woman named Yu Ji predicted the ending in advance, and decisively ended herself before everything came.Her last sentence was: "I prefer that kind of finish." Eileen Chang was seventeen years old this year.A seventeen-year-old young girl in her blooming season has seen life so thoroughly. In the past few years at St. Mary's Girls' School, Eileen Chang actually loved research the most.She even wrote a chapter novel "Modern Dream of Red Mansions" in her spare time, which is divided into two volumes.At that time, she already knew how to modernize the classical characters, write in a unique and novel way, and severely criticize the state of the world.After her father read it, he also admired it.Zhang Ailing has to reread it every three to five years. She once sighed: "Every time the impression is different. Now I only see the troubles caused by the interaction between people. Personal appreciation is limited, and it is always 'to be read. One for ten'."

This long and short middle school era came to an end unexpectedly and unexpectedly.It seems that there is still a sentimental dream left in a certain spring morning without waking up.There is also a gentle young man, under the street lights outside the campus, he has missed it without holding hands.The youthful time that I once wanted to omit, is like bright fireworks, disappearing without a trace. For Zhang Ailing, this period of middle school should be deeply unforgettable.Years later, she would still think of Merlin on the campus, those criss-crossing paths, and the old clock tower.I think of the fresh and immature words she wrote on this campus.It is the campus that made her forget a lot of unhappiness in the family.It is also a campus, which has fulfilled the dream of writing that she is proud of all her life.

Before leaving, Zhang Ailing drew cartoons for the graduated female students in the school magazine.Everyone is endowed with a different role by her, which looks vivid and interesting.She painted herself as a fortune teller holding a crystal ball, but she didn't know whose fate she could predict. How many years have passed, and we can still see an old photo of the students of St. Mary's Girls' School.Girls with short hair and light-colored cheongsam, so pure and holy.Although the photo is black and white and somewhat blurry.But the bottom of that young river is already clear.The memory of the past is quiet and safe under the water.Looking at it, people have the urge to cry.That's because we've all been beautiful before, just not young anymore. Farewell, morning dew pure campus.Farewell, the time of youth companionship.We must believe that at the port of time, there will be a boat crossing the river, which will take us to another unknown place.Closing the heavy door of the past, in the alleys of Liuguang Yiyi, it seems that there is always a voice asking: Is there such a kind of youth called rebirth.
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