Chapter 9 chapter 2

Yusaku still remembers when he first entered elementary school, his father took him by the hand and walked through the gate of the elementary school.The entrance ceremony was held in the auditorium. The children sat in line in the order of the class, and the parents watched the ceremony in the back row. To the right of Yusaku was a passageway, and across from it was the line of the next class. On the stage, adults who had never seen each other took turns to give speeches.It didn't take long for Yusaku to feel bored, and he moved his body recklessly on the chair.Suddenly, he noticed that someone was looking at him, and that line of sight came from the class on the other side of the aisle.He looked over.There was a face there that had been met.

Yuzuo still remembered that it was the boy he met at the Red Brick Hospital.Red sweater, gray scarf, white socks, everything is deeply imprinted in his mind.At that time, the boy got into the long limousine and drove away from Yusaku.Does he go to this school too? Yong Zuo stared back.The young man looked him over quickly, then turned his face back to the front, and he didn't turn his head back until the ceremony was over. School life is more comfortable and enjoyable than Yong Zuo imagined.He made many friends and learned many things he didn't know before.If he had to go hiking or have a sports meeting the next day, he would lose sleep due to excitement.

Probably because Yong Zuo is big and good at taking care of others, he became the leader of the class.Whether it's playing hide and seek, or taking pictures, grouping or sequencing is his job.No one has a problem with what he decides. On the report card that was sent out for the first time, there was a whole row of "excellent" written beautifully, and the comment column also praised Yong as "aggressive and leadership".Needless to say, his father Kouji was very happy for Yusaku.He looked at the report card and looked at his son with sincere admiration on his face. "It's amazing, Bravery, your aptitude is really different from mine."

When you enter the third grade, you have to change classes.In less than a month, Yong Zuo successfully took over the leadership of the new class.However, he didn't intend to do that on purpose, but when he came back to his senses, things had naturally evolved to this point.At that time, he simply felt that the earth revolved around himself. There was only one thing that bothered him.No, perhaps it should be said that there was only one person that bothered him. It was the boy, the boy who had stared at him during the entrance ceremony. Some people clearly have nothing to do with themselves, but they cannot ignore their existence.Even if the other party doesn't attract him, he has no grievances or enmity with him, but for some reason, as soon as he sees the other party's face, there will be a wave of fluctuation in his heart.For Yusaku, that boy was exactly that kind of person.They are not in the same class, and have never spoken to each other, but Yuzuo finds that his eyes often follow the boy's every move. This is not for the purpose of becoming friends with the other party, but because he feels that the other party is extremely annoying for no reason.

Perhaps it was an intense jealousy.Just like when I met the boy in the Red Brick Hospital, his good life experience tells the huge gap in the living environment of the two.However, that is not the real reason for Yongzuo to be jealous of him.There are also several children around Yusaku whose family background is obviously stronger than Yusaku's, but he has almost no feelings for them. In addition, Yusaku is sure that he is not unilaterally caring about the other party.When throwing a ball on the sports field, he would suddenly feel that someone was looking at him, relying on his intuition to look where this gaze came from, he would almost certainly meet the eyes of that boy.As long as Yusaku stared back, the opponent would look away.This happens many times.

What an annoying guy! Yusaku thinks so every time, and maybe the other party feels the same way. Yusaku learned the boy's name from his classmates in the first and second grades - Akihiko Guasheng.He thought it was a really contrived name. The friend also told Yusaku that Akihiko Kawao's father was a high-ranking figure in a large company.However, instead of reversing Yusaku's negative impression of him, it had the opposite effect. "Is he doing well?" Yong Zuo asked. "Very good." The classmate said, "Every time the teacher calls him in class, he can give the correct answer, and the total score of the test is 100. He is the first in the class, and maybe the first in the whole grade. "

The words "No. 1 in the whole grade" angered Yusaku.At that time, he already claimed to be the first. "However, he doesn't seem to be the squad leader." Yusaku said.He believes that no matter which class you are in, the person with the best grades must be dazzling and outstanding. "Because Guasheng has no friends, no one recommends him." "Oh. So, he's not very popular?" Yusaku himself became the class president as expected. "Yeah, not popular at all. He doesn't hang out with everybody and always puts on airs." This sentence made Yuzuo very useful.Although the two didn't have any deep hatred, he felt very happy when he heard someone speak ill of Akihiko Guasheng.

Yusaku has always cared about Akihiko, and sometimes caught his annoying gaze.Time just passed by. When the fourth grade took swimming lessons in the summer, the two had positive contact. That was the last day I went swimming that summer.Five classes held a relay race.Each class selects four elites, 50 meters each, to compete in a total of 200 meters. Yong Zuo was naturally selected. He is very confident in swimming. In the swimming lessons so far, no one can swim faster than him, so he is the last one. While Yusaku was waiting behind the starting platform, he overheard the conversation of the students in the next class.That was the class of Akihiko Guasheng, and he was also among the players.In terms of order, he is the third bat.

I just heard him turn around and say to the last player: "Hey, change with me." "Why? Didn't we decide by guessing fist?" "Don't instigate, just change with me." Gua Sheng is considered tall among the fourth grade students, and his facial features are also like a small adult. When the other party was stared at by him, he immediately stood up and exchanged with him in a panic. Yusaku and Guasheng, who were watching from the side, met their eyes, and then looked away. The swimming competition started, the first rod and the second rod jumped into the swimming pool one after another.After the third shot entered the water, Yongzuo stood on the take-off platform and wiped his saliva on his ears.

"Wakura, please!" Yusaku raised his hand in response to his classmates cheering. Among the five contestants, the one in the Guasheng class is one body length ahead, and the one in the Yongzuo class is third.Yong Zuo is sure that he can turn the tide and surpass this guy Gua Sheng soon... However, something unexpected happened.Gua Sheng, who was clearly leading the third pole, did not jump into the water immediately after swimming the last pole."What are you doing?" came from the audience.Soon, the players in Yongsaku's class also came back.As soon as he took the baton, Yuzuo immediately jumped into the water.He seized the perfect time to enter the water and made fast, confident freestyle strokes.He thinks that he is in the first place and can reach the finish line by himself.

But when he was about to turn back at 25 meters, he saw an unbelievable sight-someone was swimming in front of him! It's...Gua Sheng! Impossible! He obviously entered the water later than me... Do your best.However, when he reached the finish line and poked his head out of the water, he saw that Gua Sheng had already taken off his swimming cap.Gua Sheng caught his gaze and grinned slightly.It is the first time Yong Zuo sees Gua Sheng and smiles.If he was a junior high school student at the time, the word "sneer" would probably have appeared in his mind.That smile seemed to say to him: "Don't be self-righteous!" Yong Zuo realizes that Gua Sheng did that on purpose.From the very beginning, he planned to make Yuzuo a laughingstock, so he forcibly changed sticks with his classmates, and he deliberately went into the water late to embarrass Yuzuo. Yong Zuo was so frustrated that he was on the verge of tears, he dived into the water again, clenching his teeth. The compliments from the students who watched the game proved how superb Gua Sheng's swimming skills were during the competition.Some say his arms dance like windmills, while others say he swims through the water like a fish.What they say is probably true. After that day, Yusaku was depressed for a long time.As soon as he found Gua Sheng's figure, he would subconsciously turn around and leave.He hates himself like that. He didn't realize at the time that it was the first time he had tasted inferiority complex, but he realized that his inexplicable dislike of Gua Sheng had turned into a definite hatred. "One day I'm going to beat you!" he made up his mind. In the spring of the following year, they were promoted to the fifth grade, and the two entered the same class. Yuzuo is still the leader of the class.At that time, among the classmates in the same grade, the name of Yusaku Wakura was known to almost everyone, so in the election of class president, Yusaku was elected with an overwhelming number of votes. Academically, Yusaku never felt uneasy either.No matter math or Chinese, he finds it very easy.Listening to the teacher's lecture is as simple and easy to understand as listening to an old man recalling the past, and when the teacher clicks on him, he can also respond fluently.He found it incredible that his classmates were confused by the addition of fractions, and he didn't understand why they couldn't even do such a simple thing. It seems that I am also number one in this class! Not long after entering the fifth grade, Yusaku thought so conceitedly. But it didn't take long for him to realize that this was just an illusion, and it was Akihiko Guaou who shattered his confidence. After the two were in the same class, Yong Zuo had been concerned about Gua Sheng for a long time, but he gradually discovered that Gua Sheng was just like what his former classmates said, an unremarkable person.He is taciturn, and always keeps a distance from everyone; in class, he is not as active as Yuzuo; when it is time to finish, almost the whole class will rush to the campus to play, but he mostly reads in his seat.He doesn't seem to have any close friends, making it hard to figure out what kind of person he is. However, Guasheng will still cast a cold and hostile gaze on Yusaku from a distance, and Yusaku is also very concerned about his every move.Although the two do not want to get close to each other, they always pay attention to each other. After the first monthly exam, Yong Zuo knew Gua Sheng's strength.The teacher announced that Yong Zuo and Gua Sheng both got full marks in the exam.Yuzuo looked at Guasheng in surprise.Gua Sheng put his hands on his cheeks, with a nonchalant expression on his face. Since then, Yuzuo has always cared about his success.He wanted to know the true strength of this incomprehensible opponent.After about two months, Yusaku understood. Akihiko Guasheng's academic performance is outstanding, it can be said to be outstanding.Regardless of the exams or homework of any subject, as far as I know, there has never been a problem that I can't solve.He always did his homework flawlessly and almost always got full marks on his exams.Although Yong Zuo has never scored less than 90 points, he will make mistakes from time to time due to carelessness.Sometimes, the teacher will deliberately ask questions that frustrate the children, and Yong Zuo has no choice but to raise his hands in surrender, but for Gua Sheng, this is a trivial matter.Another example is filling in the capitals of various countries on the map of Europe, dictating the Chinese character "Qi Zhe", and solving mathematical equations. He answered quickly and correctly with a dull face. Gua Sheng is not only good at reading, he can safely pass any exercise that he is asked to do.The so-called "passing through the border safely" is actually just pretending.He gives off the vibe of "he could run faster and jump higher if he just put his mind to it," as if it would be absurd to ask him to go all out for something so utterly boring. Gua Sheng, who is brilliant in all aspects, is a complete inferior student in terms of interpersonal relationships.He doesn't bother people, but he doesn't want to have fun with everyone either.When working with the class as a unit, he just finished the part he was responsible for early, but turned a blind eye to the work of others.However, the part he was in charge of was flawless. "I hate being with Guasheng." "He thought he had good grades, so he dragged it like two to five or eighty thousand." The number of students who said so gradually increased. "He Cang, don't lose to that kind of person! Show him some color!" Yongsaku's friends said.Everyone can't bear Gua Sheng's attitude of not paying attention to people. Guasheng is the one who hates Guasheng the most. Bravery is hardly ever left behind.Reading, sports, painting and calligraphy, he is the first in everything.Of course, there is a lot of hard work behind the results.However, Gua Sheng easily snatched away the first place that he had worked so hard for, humming a song.Like that swim meet.Gua Sheng won, but he had an expression on his face that "this kind of trivial matter is not worth being happy at all", it was simply to make Yong angry on purpose. "What's the matter with you? I've been very lethargic recently." A few classmates often said this to Yusaku.Yuzuo was surprised.He never thought that others would say sympathetic words to him. "It's nothing. I've been down too." He always answered loudly on purpose. To get rid of this useless spirit, there is no other way but to surpass Guasheng.After returning home from school, Yong Zuo would sit at his desk and study hard whenever he had time, and run and do push-ups during break time.He learned to draw a map of the world, recite constellations, play the wooden flute with his eyes closed, his calligraphy is correct and beautiful, and he knows all the commonly used Chinese characters.However, the harder he tried to catch up with Gua Sheng, the more obvious the gap between the two became.Yong Zuo began to feel anxious, often restless, and often blamed his friends. One day, something happened during the class meeting. Yusaku served as the chairperson as usual, and the topic was how to solve the problem of the recent desertion of the flower garden that the class took care of.The brave job is to summarize and sort out the opinions of the students after they have expressed their opinions. In fact, Yusaku has also started to feel troublesome about class meetings recently.When he stood on the podium and looked down at everyone, he always inadvertently caught Gua Sheng out of the corner of his eye, and he was very concerned about how Gua Sheng looked at him. "You are obviously inferior to me in everything, yet you still dare to put on an air of being the boss." Yongzuo wondered if Guasheng was thinking this way? He had never thought of such inferiority before. Yong Zuo asks the students to have a discussion, but half of his mind is on Gua Sheng.He is very concerned about Guasheng's every move, but he never takes a look at Guasheng. "That's how the order of taking care of the flower beds is decided. However, no matter how much the person in charge patrols, it's meaningless if they don't take care of them seriously. Is there a way to solve this?" After the matter was roughly decided, Yusaku said.In his view, it was also the Chair's job to raise new issues.At this time, Yongzuo saw Guasheng yawning, closed his mouth and turned his head to look out the window.Yusaku looked away from him and asked again, "Who has an opinion?" Everyone put forward several opinions, but there was still no conclusion. So Yusaku said, "How about doing this? Let's make a record book and record watering, weeding, etc. In this way..." Seeing Gua Sheng's expression, Yong Zuo stopped halfway through his speech.Gua Sheng rested his chin on his hands and smiled with the corners of his mouth crooked.That smile! Swimming smile! At that moment, Yusaku's suppressed emotions exploded in his heart. He rushed off the podium. Everyone was surprised when he rushed to Guasheng's table and thumped the table vigorously with his fists clenched. "You speak up! You have an opinion, right?" Gua Sheng had a bewildered expression on his face, still resting his chin on his hands, staring at Yusaku's face fixedly. "I have no opinion." "Nonsense! You clearly look down on me." "Looking down on you?" Gua Sheng snorted and turned his face away. As soon as he saw this movement, Yusaku didn't have time to think, his body took a step ahead.He grabbed Guasheng's wrist and pulled him up with all his strength, so Guasheng fell to the ground with the chair.Yusaku sat on him, grabbing his collar with both hands. "Stop! What are you doing?!" When the teacher's voice came from behind him, Yusaku felt his ass go empty.In the next second, he landed on his back and fell to the ground. Yong Zuo got up, and Gua Sheng was brushing the dust off his clothes.He looked down at Yusaku, and said softly but clearly, "Is there something wrong with your head?" The fight quickly spread.When Yusaku came home with the teacher's letter, his father Kouji flushed with anger.The teacher wrote Yusaku's behavior in school on it, and asked Xingji to sign it. "Why?" Xingji asked, "Why did you do that?" Yuzuo didn't answer.Expressing his inner thoughts is like exposing his weakness, which frightens him. The father's anger has not subsided for a long time.Yong Zuo is mentally prepared: maybe he will be kicked out of the house. However, after Xingji finished reading the letter, his expression changed 180 degrees.He raised his head and asked, "The Guasheng who fought with you is the son of the boss of Guasheng Industry?" "Yes." Yuzuo replied. UR Electric was also called Guasheng Industry at that time. Xingji frowned, took out a pen from the tea cabinet, silently signed the letter, and whispered, "Don't do stupid things!" Yusaku doesn't understand at all why his father's anger is quickly extinguished. Since then, Yuzuo has changed.He no longer likes to stand out, and he no longer acts like a leader.He just kept thinking about how to defeat Gua Sheng. The relationship between the two continued for several years.