Chapter 5 Astringent (1)

The homeroom teacher stood on the podium and told the freshmen about high school life. She was not young. Through the silk blouse, Chen Yan saw her bra, which was black.In the first class of the first year of high school, the teacher said very seriously: "High school may be the most stressful period in your life. Don't think that entering a key high school means entering a safe, although our school's enrollment rate is over 90% , but after all there is the remaining 10%, and I hope you don’t do that 10%.” The wrinkles that covered every inch of her leather clothing were still thriving, and the sunlight penetrated through the glass into the air-conditioned classroom and bathed them.Those tiny lines haven't fully let go of their growth yet, as if they are still waiting for a nourishing rain.The teacher said that life in high school may be more tense from the beginning than during the high school entrance examination. Everyone should be prepared. There is evening self-study every night. Saturday is the weekly practice (that is, the exam). ranking.The teacher also said that being a teacher is actually harder than being a student. Everyone should not feel resentment towards the teacher, but should understand each other. Anyway, it is all about working hard for the college entrance examination.

The second class is mathematics. The teacher who just transferred from Xinzhou talked about the learning status of their students. They get up at 5 o'clock in the morning, rest for half an hour at noon, study by themselves at 10 o'clock in the evening, and read books under the quilt after 12 o'clock. .He said that his former students were very responsible. If they didn’t finish today’s tasks, they would suffer from insomnia. If they didn’t understand an exercise today, they would think about it even in their dreams.He said that the living conditions of your children in big cities are too good. They are the treasures of their parents. They have no sense of crisis and self-motivation...

Next came the English class. The teacher's English was mixed with a Huangpi accent, with a weird ending, and no one could understand it.The water glass in his hand contained a fat sea. During that class, Chen Yan stared at the floating fat sea, watching it slowly expand in the water, like a black cloud. The geography teacher said that this course is a subject with high logical requirements, and that it is a science subject in the liberal arts, so it should not be taken lightly.The history teacher said, you have to pay attention to my class, don't think that you only need to memorize it, and understand it first.

The politics teacher said, don't take politics seriously, they take up a large proportion in the exam... Their tirade, their tediousness, and their self-righteousness stung every student in the class. On the first day of high school, Chen Yan and Yuan Jing went to the riverside together, perhaps because they were intimidated by what the class teacher said, for fear that they would never have time to go again.Walk out of the school and turn a corner to the concession along the river.The Japanese Concession has fallen into disrepair, leaving a few dilapidated small houses in the vegetable market.The houses built by Europeans are still conspicuous by virtue of their tallness and sturdiness. Under the plane trees, they breathe the scorching air calmly.

Since the third year of junior high school, Jiangtan has become more and more public. A fitness center has been opened there, with a swimming pool, tennis court and indoor fitness room.With a bigger face, people who provoke people will hide, and the river beach is gradually being developed. People regard it as a good place for dating, and couples often appear on the bottom beach hugging each other.They were young men and women, high school students, dating outside of school hours.Autumn is the best season. In winter, it will be too cold, with bruised nose and swollen face, not suitable for dating.Occasionally, there will be middle-aged couples who walk along the water after dinner and chat in Wuhan dialect with a strong taste of citizens. Those words are not too romantic, but soft and smooth.

In short, it is no longer like before, looking around, there are only some passing boats. Too many people drove away the elephant fish lurking in the bottom beach. That day, the elephant fish said to Chen Yan: "I have stayed here for so long...there are more and more people, it is time, I should Look at this world...you are my best friend, I will keep going down the river until I enter the sea, and I don't know when I will come back..." The voice was like cotton candy, a big piece of snow white , the appearance is soft and sweet, but it turns into dry sucrose when licked. Chen Yan ran away with his head down, unable to hide his sadness from behind.

Xiangyu left and went down the river to see the world, leaving Chen Yan alone. "I haven't finished talking yet, don't go! I said hello to the sky. If I see something beautiful, I will tell the sky. The sky in the whole world is connected. If you come to the bottom of the beach When I see the beautiful sky, it means I am thinking of you!..." Xiangyu's last few words rushed into Chen Yan's ears mixed with the wind... Yuan Jing called Chen Yan's name, and the wind carried that voice.Chen Yan turned his head, turned his back to the pale river, and saw Yuan Jing in the distance...

We meet many people every day, but in the end we are still strangers.Take Chen Yan as an example, she goes to school by bus every day, and she meets countless strangers just on the bus.She has different attitudes towards these people who have met once, and she has a good impression and a dislike.During the 15-minute drive, she will unconsciously release various emotions.Most of them are like a flash of scenery, and there are very few people who can get acquainted with each other. When he was six years old, Chen Yan held his mother by the skirt and watched the chrysanthemum exhibition by the river.The Chrysanthemum Exhibition in October used to be a major event in Wuhan every year. Chrysanthemums were made into various shapes, ranging from various animals to spaceships.The entire avenue along the river is full of chrysanthemums, isn't it said that chrysanthemums are given to the dead?Isn't that chrysanthemum exhibition a huge funeral?Why are the people who come to the Chrysanthemum Exhibition so happy?Whose funeral is it?I can’t understand these statements, no matter what, the chrysanthemum exhibition was once brilliant, which is the reason for adults to date and the reason for children to wear red and green.

Chen Yan was wearing the little red dress given by her aunt and her favorite black leather shoes while walking along the Yanjiang Avenue during the chrysanthemum exhibition. Her socks were lace. The ponytail was tied tightly, the scalp was pulled up, and the corners of the eyes were pulled up.This festive outfit made Chen Yan a little complacent. She paid attention to her walking posture. The models were shown walking on the catwalk on TV yesterday. Yes, they should walk as lightly as they do, so light that they can hang in the air.Chen Yan tightened his hips, raised his center of gravity, and walked along a virtual straight line.

There were crowds of people by the river, but no one seemed to care about Chen Yan's careful steps.Too tired, and the graceful posture was too exhausting, Chen Yan returned to his sloppy pace after walking for a long time.There were more and more people, and the huge body posed a threat. Chen Yan was afraid that he would be drowned by the sea of ​​people, so he grabbed his mother's clothes, not daring to relax. Yuan Jing was eating popsicles. Wuhan was still not cool in October. She struggled with her mother for a long time to get that popsicle.Yuan Jing ate so hard that she even forgot to walk, let alone look at the chrysanthemums. Her mother dragged her forward, and she kept thinking about where the next bite should fall.The painted popsicle changed from laughing to crying, waiting to be eaten by Yuan Jing.

The two of them met in front of the dinosaur made of chrysanthemums. They just looked at each other, and then went their own way.The eyes of the two little girls lasted about 5 seconds for the first time, and then the two little dots drew a line for themselves in the crowd, and the distance became farther and farther apart. Only the tall chrysanthemum dinosaur watched everything silently.If anyone can testify to that encounter, it's probably only the Chrysanthemum Dinosaur. This is the so-called one-sided relationship. A few years later, when they became classmates, no one could remember that encounter at Juzhan, but that encounter did exist. I just know when people are no longer keen on chrysanthemum exhibitions, and no one painstakingly puts chrysanthemum coats on Jiang Tan.The chrysanthemum exhibition disappeared without knowing it. In October today, the spectacular scene of chrysanthemums all over the street can no longer be seen. The first day of junior high school, the first day of school, the first class of the first grade of junior high school was full of people, and the teacher hadn't come yet, so they sat casually.Yuan Jing went late, and there was only one seat left in the class.That seat was in the last row, and a girl was sitting against the wall, her bangs almost covering her eyes.It was Chen Yan, with earphones hidden in her thick hair, Aihua's tape player, and a Nirvana mouth tape inside. Chen Yan gave Yuan Jing an earphone, and it was the first time that such a restless voice reached her ears.As I listened, the battery was about to run out, the tape slowed down, Kurt's voice darkened, aged for a moment, and finally stopped.Chen Yan took out the "in utro", and Yuan Jing turned the inside pages over and over again. Kurt had purple-red hair, and his eyes were serious and desperate. "Don't go to the riverside, it's not safe there! Some time ago, a friend of mine told me that several children were harvested for their organs by others by the riverside. It's remote and barren, and there are often four or five people. Stop you, drag you to a place where no one is around, and then dig out your cornea... Don't you think I'm joking, it's true. And those people in society, those gangsters, also often Running to the riverside, you must not go there casually!" This was the only paragraph in the grandma-level class teacher's long speech that caught the interest of Chen Yan and Yuan Jing.Before, both of them were looking up the dictionary, and they only had a little elementary school English foundation, but they still tried hard to understand what Kurt was singing. After talking a lot, the head teacher finally stopped. She spoke very excitedly and panted heavily.As soon as they entered junior high school, Chen Yan and Yuan Jing met a strange class teacher. She said that jackfruit is a vine plant that can stalk people to death. She said that the South Pole is hot while the North Pole is cold. When the arctic snot flows out, it will be frozen into ice.So when she said the above words, almost no one believed them. Of course, if she hadn't said those words, Chen Yan and Yuan Jing wouldn't have rushed to the river beach. The first time Chen Yan and Yuan Jing went to the river beach was in autumn. A speedboat was wandering by the river, playing the theme song of "Titanic".At that time, this extremely incendiary movie was in full swing, and when they heard the flashy music playing in the bottom beach, Chen Yan and Yuan Jing almost fainted from laughter. "Let's capsize the boat again!" The two yelled at the speedboat in turns, but there was no response. "My heart will go on" was played in a loop mode, and the two were forcibly dubbed this music for the first time on the river beach . On September 1st of the first year of high school, the sun was scorching, and the sun was full of energy. At 6 pm, it was still releasing extremely excess heat.Yuan Jing has a pair of child-like legs, straight and slender, and the knee joints are inserted straight between the thighs and calves, which are almost of average thickness.The road was scorched by the sun, and the heat accumulated for a long time passed through the soles of Chen Yan's shoes and burned to the soles of her feet. She hopped forward to avoid the heat attack.The two were tortured to the brink of death by the sun, and when they reached the bottom beach, they became more energetic when they saw the flowing water. The two walked through familiar areas and began to walk to more desolate places, trying to reach places that no one else had reached.Chen Yan was wearing shorts, and the sharp weeds scratched her legs. She enjoyed the wriggling pain and continued walking, followed closely by Yuan Jing.It wasn't until dark that they realized that they were lost. In the weeds, they walked hard, but they couldn't find the exit. The high road seemed not far away, but among the weeds higher than people's heads, they couldn't even recognize the way they came.Chen Yan burst into tears in anxiety. She was afraid. What made her afraid was not getting lost, but the feeling of being lost. Yuan Jing held her hand without saying a word, the two of them squatted on the ground, wondering if they should move on.If you hug your knees and hide in the weeds, will you be discovered if you stay like this?If I stay like this all the time, can it disappear?I buried my head in my knees, the sky was getting dark, and the smell of the evening was caught between my knees.The scratched leg was aching, and Chen Yan was afraid that insects would crawl into her body along the wound, stay in her body, and live in her body, just like the parasites in her stomach when she was a child. I have to arrive at school at 7:15 the next morning, and the sound of the electronic alarm clock will shatter my dreams and morning, and my life will soon be put into a box, and I can’t escape no matter what.The future is an illusion, she buried her head deeper, as if she wanted to keep this position forever.Yuan Jing looked at his watch, then looked at the sky, darkness and darkness superimposed, and a little light that hadn't faded was a small gap in the sky. She pulled Chen Yan, but Chen Yan didn't move. "Get up!" Chen Yan still didn't move, Yuan Jing began to pull and pull, she was still as indifferent as a dead thing. "Get up with me! If you don't get up again, it will be dark, and you can never go back!" After speaking, Yuan Jing squatted down and pulled her head out of her knees.Tears were all over Chen Yan's face, "I don't want to go back..." "We must go back!" Yuan Jing stopped the teardrop that was about to fall down her eye socket with her fingers, and put it on her tongue. She rolled up her tongue, creating a long and thin channel for this rare liquid, Let it go over every taste bud.Chen Yan's tears were not salty, and he couldn't tell what the taste was, but he felt jerky nails slashing along the line the tears slid. "Let's go!" Tears dried up quickly, and Chen Yan woke up.In front of her was Yuan Jing's child-like legs, straight and without curves. She was also scratched by weeds, and those wounds were grinning unscrupulously.Chen Yan stretched out his slender fingers and gently pressed them on Yuan Jing's leg, sliding along the edge of the wound, outlining the outline of these wounds.It is scientifically proven that touch can relieve pain.Chen Yan's linear strokes went deeper than the skin. Wounds are beautiful and can open people... Yuan Jing dragged Chen Yan forward, the wind passed through the gap between their hands, and the two pulled even tighter, squeezing away the wind who wanted to take advantage of the loophole.Yuan Jing tried to keep the forward direction, her eyes were only the light on the embankment in the distance, and the weeds were mechanically pushed aside or crushed by her.Yuan Jing pulled Chen Yan's hand red, she was like a tractor, leaving behind many traces in the process of advancing, waiting for others to sow seeds in her path. She keeps going forward and cannot go back. The two finally came out with more scratches. It was getting late, and looking back, the weeds behind them seemed to be a forest that could eat people.The sound of the car sliding across the road was very real. The two of them stood on the side of the road stupidly, their bodies ached, and they could feel the vibration of the road. At the bus stop, the two say goodbye.There are a lot of people at the station, and everyone has their own lives, which are not related to each other, and no one knows anyone else's life.Both had several scratches on their hands and feet, and their bodies were hot.The wind was blowing to tear the wound, Chen Yan kept changing his posture, but every posture was uncomfortable. Yuan Jing got in the car early in the morning, but the car Chen Yan was waiting for never came. The 1 yuan coin he was holding in his hand had already started to feel hot, and his palms were sweaty.Chen Yan felt that she might fall to the ground at any moment, and she felt even more uncomfortable when the car came, because she realized that she was about to be crushed like a sardine.Who knows how many bacteria and unclean things there are in the car, those filthy things will be ecstatic when they see Chen Yan's open wound, they will scramble to get into Chen Yan's body and destroy her body.The wound began to itch, and the coagulated blood stretched the gap little by little. Chen Yan was worried that his leg would rot all the way. However, after a week of itching, the wound gradually healed, new tissue spread out under the skin, and everything returned to normal, as if nothing had happened.