Chapter 11 chapter Five

He and she were in the same middle school in Beijing more than ten years ago. In 1965, when Li Xiangnan entered the school, he was in the first (3) class of senior high school, and Lin Hong happened to be in the first (3) class of junior high school.At that time, a "brothers and sisters class" was set up between high and junior high schools in the school. Li Xiangnan was assigned by the class to be an extracurricular counselor in the first (3) class of junior high school, helping them with military training and maintaining the order of evening self-study. On the first day of extracurricular practice queue, Li Xiangnan divided boys and girls into two teams.When the boys' team stands at attention, rests, turns left, and turns right for training, the girls' team stands in a horizontal line and watches from the sidelines, and then they make comments on the boys' team.And then train the girls team in turn.When the boys team was training, the girls team let out a burst of whispering laughter.The laughter distracted the boys team's attention, and Li Xiangnan was a little angry. "Don't laugh, you must abide by the discipline of the queue, and carefully look at the advantages and disadvantages of the boys' team." He went to the girls' team and criticized.

The girls held back their laughter with their tongues stuck out. There was a girl who laughed the hardest just now, and now she stood up with her chest up mischievously.Others also imitated her appearance, one by one acting like they put on the floor, but there was an unconcealable mischief in their eyes.Li Xiangnan immediately felt that she was a central figure.She was very beautiful, so beautiful that he didn't dare to look at her carefully. "Cohort training must be serious." He said seriously with slightly lowered eyes, but at the same time, he felt her eyes were always smiling, looking at him mischievously and boldly.This annoyed him especially.He scowled and turned around to continue training the boys team.Although the jokes in the girls' team were better than before, they never stopped.Li Xiangnan noticed more clearly at this time: the girls are all centered on that girl.She covered her mouth with her hands and said something, and the girls on the left and right turned to look at him, the counselor, and let out a low-pitched laugh.

It was the turn to train the girls' team, and Li Xiangnan was very serious.But as soon as he demonstrated, the girls couldn't stop laughing.As soon as he turned around to criticize them, they pretended to be serious again under the lead of the girl. "What are you guys laughing at?" He got really annoyed, stopped the queue training, and asked standing in front of the girls' line.The girls stopped laughing. "What's so ridiculous about queuing actions? You are already middle school students, why are you still so unserious?" The girls looked at each other, bit their lips and lowered their eyes.

"Why are you laughing?" "We think counselors should take the lead and be serious." The girl pointed to his leg. Li Xiangnan looked down and found that his left trouser leg was comically two or three inches shorter than his right trouser leg.A large patch on the left knee at noon lifted the wrinkled legs of the trousers. There was another muffled giggle from the girls. "If you don't know how to make it up, we can make it up for you." The girl said seriously.The girls covered their mouths and laughed again.This time even the boy team standing aside laughed.

"You are making trouble." "I didn't make trouble." The girl said and lowered her head. Li Xiangnan bent down and rolled up both trouser legs, rolled them up, and then straightened up. "Serious?" he asked darkly. The girl looked up at him, then looked down again. "Are you serious?" he asked, raising his voice. The girl was silent. "Are you serious?" Li Xiangnan asked angrily. "Seriously." The girl replied in a low voice. "Okay, listen to the password and stand at attention!" The team stood at attention without a sound.Li Xiangnan suspended the training early.Back in the dormitory, he changed the pair of trousers that made a fool of himself, ripped off the bad luck patch, threw the trousers on the bed, and fell on his back on the bed.

Then there was a cautious knock on the door. "Who is it? Come in, it's disgusting to pretend." The door opened, and it was her. He froze for a moment and sat up from the bed. "Counselor, go ahead and train us," she said. "No more training." Li Xiangnan said, turning around and tidying up his bed indiscriminately. The girl lowered her head: "I was wrong." Li Xiangnan didn't know what to say. "We're all here." She pointed out the window.On the playground outside the window, all the girls in class one (3) of junior high school stood there neatly in a horizontal line. "I was very self-willed since I was a child, and I will be criticized more in the future." She looked at Li Xiangnan and said sincerely.

She is Lin Hong.This is the first day they met. The next day, the school held a sports meeting for freshmen.Li Xiangnan participated in the 1,500-meter long-distance race.Colorful flags fluttered on the playground, and there was a sea of ​​people.Throwing competitions are going on on the football field, and middle-distance running competitions are going on on the 400-meter runway at the Globe Field. As soon as the gunshot rang out, the 1,500-meter race began. Li Xiangnan rushed out.The students in the first grade (3) class happened to be sitting near the starting line, and he ran together, and they cheered for their counselor.The first lap passed and he heard them shouting.Passing them on the second lap, he heard them cheering for him again. He heard Lin Hong's vigorous shouting, and saw her shining eyes.He had a good run and was well ahead all the way.When passing them on the third lap, that is, 300 meters away from the finish line, an accident happened. A derailed grenade flew across from the football field and hit his left foot, causing him to fall down on the track On the road, the crowd screamed.He covered his feet and rolled left and right on the ground, gritted his teeth and stood up.As soon as his foot hit the ground, the pain was excruciating, and the people behind caught up one after another. Someone slowed down and reached out to him, and someone from outside the track also ran in to help him.He waved his hands, limped up the runway, and then gritted his teeth and ran again.The students in class 3 of junior high school immediately shouted: "Li Xiangnan—come on—come on! Li Xiangnan—come on—come on!" He caught a glimpse of Lin Hong clenched his fists and shouted vigorously.He gritted his teeth and sprinted to the finish line.

When he got off the runway, he was so painful that he couldn't even walk. The classmates in the class carried him out of the infirmary after being bandaged, and Lin Hong was waiting at the door. "Is it bad?" she asked eagerly. He shook his head. "Does it hurt?" "A little bit." He tried to land his left foot on the ground, and the pain immediately made his forehead sweat, "I can't walk." "But how did you run down?" "The main reason is to hear you shouting for support." He said with a smile. In the afternoon, Li Xiangnan was reading "General History of the World" alone in the dormitory. She came and said, "Give me your torn pants, and I will mend them for you."

"You know how to make up?" Li Xiangnan asked.He already knew that Lin Hong's parents were both university professors, and she was an only child; she was very good at studying, and she was the top-notch in arts and sciences in the first grade of junior high school, and she could draw Chinese paintings, play the piano, and play the violin.But she can also do needlework? "I will. I learned it when I was sewing dolls in kindergarten when I was a child." She said, "I was brave when I was young, and I had to learn everything." "I have already repaired it." Li Xiangnan said.

"If it breaks in the future, I'll fix it for you." Lin Hong's eyes fell on the book Li Xiangnan was reading again, "You also like history?" "how?" "My dad studies history." "Then can I ask him if I have any questions?" "of course can." "What are you holding in your hand?" "Here, I drew two cartoons for you." Li Xiangnan took a look and couldn't help laughing.The title of one is "Serious Counselor", which shows him standing there shouting passwords and training the queue. The legs of his trousers are strikingly and comically different in length, which is just a hilarious contrast with his stern expression.Another painting is "He Runs to the Finish".He was sprinting with his arms back and forth on the track, his left foot was exaggerated to be bound with white gauze, swollen like a winter melon, out of proportion.

Li Xiangnan couldn't stop laughing, tears came out. "Like you?" "Like, like. You really do like it." "Do you want to give it to you?" "Of course. I'll definitely save it and see how ridiculous I am!" Lin Hong also giggled happily. And so began his friendship with her...