Chapter 5 Chapter 4

After returning from Puli, the wind of chess still sticks to everyone's hands, and the fever has not subsided. So the magnetic chess set is circulated in everyone's drawers, and every time the get out of class is over, the war will start, and the class will be put away.The same is true for easy-to-understand backgammon. On the blue fine grid paper, everyone uses a pencil to paint round white circles and black circles to replace black and white pieces. After class, you can play two or three games in ten minutes. Everyone is very happy. enthusiastic. And "defeating Ke Jingteng's military chess" has become the ultimate goal of all the boys in the class.

"From now on, the words of a true gentleman who watch chess without talking will be regarded as farts. You all add up and treat me one by one. You are welcome. If I start to be arrogant at a young age, my life will be very bad." Troubled." I picked my nostrils and spoke out loudly. It's not a joke that we are united, I tasted failure within a few days, and I can't let go. "This tells us that people should not be too proud." Shen Jiayi stabbed my back with a ballpoint pen, with a very serious expression. "I really don't understand what's so bad about a group of people joining forces to defeat one person." I said helplessly.

Then, Director Lai announced a terrible news. "Listen up, everyone. In order to comply with the education bureau's policy on the number of gifted classes, our Art Class A and Art Class B will reduce the number of students from the current 45 to 30 students. The 30 students who leave the two classes will form another art class. Class C. So when we are promoted to the third grade, we have to use the grades as the standard and keep the top 30. Students who want to stay in Class A must work harder." Director Lai said, scanning everyone in the class . As soon as this remark came out, I was extremely shocked.

Ever since Shen Jiayi, who loves to chatter, sat behind me, she nagged me from time to time that I should study occasionally, otherwise I would fail the exam of Taipei Fuxing Art, which I missed, and my grades began to improve helplessly.But progress is progress, and I am not sure that I can stay in the original class. "Ke Jingteng, do you think you will be kicked out of Class A?" The monster sat under the tree, staring blankly at Fuyun. "Kick your head, take care of yourself." I flipped through "Youth Express", and the uneasiness in my heart was like ink drops in clear water, constantly exaggerating and expanding.

"Actually, it might be better to go to Class C, where there is less pressure for grades. Even if you draw manga in class, no one will care about you." Monster suggested, looking at his watch. The second school bus is ready to leave. "Shut up." I returned the "Boy Express" to the monster, scratching my head irritably. At this moment, the character of Shen Jiayi's mother-in-law burned to the extreme. In the self-study class, Shen Jiayi's ballpoint pen stabbed into my back again, causing me to cry and turn around in pain. "What do you think? Didn't I tell you to work harder? Regret it?" Shen Jiayi stared at me.

"Oh my God, it's not that you want to be kicked out, what are you doing staring at me? Besides, the monster said, I can draw cartoons all day long after I get to Class C, so it's not bad." I said, but this was not what I meant. "Bring me the geography textbook." Shen Jiayi frowned, not allowing me to resist. "What for?" "faster!" After I handed the geography textbook to Shen Jiayi, about one class time, Shen Jiayi stabbed me with a ballpoint pen and returned the book to me. It was filled with highlighter lines of various colors and a bunch of key points excerpted from reference books. hint.

"If you are familiar with drawing lines, there will be no problems in the monthly exam." Shen Jiayi told me very seriously: "Then you have to do math every day, and from now on we will solve a problem every time after class." "Ah?" I was startled and embarrassed, but I didn't have the guts to refute Shen Jiayi who was thinking about me. "Ah what? You asked for this." Shen Jiayi opened the ranking list of the last monthly exam, pointed to the data on it and said, "Your English is very good, Chinese and history are average, geography is not good, mathematics and physics and chemistry are not good. They all suck, if you're not stupid, or you're not reciting at all, or you're reciting the wrong way. Do you think you're stupid?"

"What and what?" I couldn't think, my ears were burning. "Ke Jingteng, are you stupid?" Shen Jiayi looked at me, not letting my eyes move away. "Damn, it's far away." I had difficulty breathing. "Then prove it to me." Shen Jiayi glared at me. I stared blankly at Shen Jiayi.Suddenly, something very complicated came to my mind. I, who have always had my eyes above the top and are used to laughing and joking, should have rejected such embarrassment very much.But I knew that I had to accept Shen Jiayi's kindness, and I also recognized being treated as a fool, because I couldn't avoid the serious warmth that tightly enveloped my soul.

I don't want to leave Art Class A at all. If I was kicked out, I would definitely be scolded to death by my family, and Shen Jiayi could only talk to Xie Minghe. Well, very deliberately brought to the biggest love rival in my life, Xie Minghe. Ah He is chubby, like a big watermelon lying heavily in a sandy field, a friend whose life history keeps overlapping with mine. Ah He and I have been in the same class since the first grade of elementary school until we graduated from elementary school, and by coincidence, we were admitted to an art class in elementary school.My family opened a pharmacy, and Ah He's family also opened a pharmacy.I know old English songs like the back of my hand, and Ah He also has a lot of knowledge in English songs.I am arrogant, Ah He is confident.Even when we were in sixth grade, we liked the same girl.I like chatting with Shen Jiayi, and so does Ah He.

I take a look... a look!It was obvious at a glance that Ah He liked Shen Jiayi very much, and I also seriously suspected that Ah He also discovered my strange liking for Shen Jiayi. At that time, I was sitting in front of Shen Jiayi, and Ah He was sitting on Shen Jiayi's right. The seat relationship presented a standard right triangle.Both of us are Shen Jiayi's favorite boys to chat with, this commonality makes me restless. The girl I liked with Ah He in the sixth grade of elementary school was called Xiaomi, who sat behind me, and Ah He was sitting next to Xiao Mi.Xiaomi likes to chat with us very much.Oops, it's exactly the same as the current situation and formation.

"In the English-speaking broadcast last night, I have heard the penguin joke that the host said a long time ago. My sister said..." Ah He laughed and Shen Jiayi listened attentively. When Ah He talked to Shen Jiayi, he was always very mature, and Shen Jiayi was taken aback when he heard it. Ah He, who was in junior high school, can talk about cars from computers, and from computers to foreign customs and customs, he is just a little grown-up.Compared with Ah He's erudition and knowledge, my childishness seemed embarrassing.If the three of us chat together for a long time, it is easy for me to lose interest.The most important thing is that Ah He has been with me for a long time and is a very good friend, which especially discourages me. Then tragedy happened. At that time, I was under the pressure of getting kicked out of class. I let go of my dignity and practiced math problem solving with Shen Jiayi after every get out of class (in fact, I was instructed). I put the math reference book on Shen Jiayi's desk, and the two of them repeatedly operated the mathematical formula to deduce the answer. , Sometimes even at lunch, a piece of scribbled calculation paper was put on for discussion, and I didn't let it go for a moment. I remember it was a self-study class, and Ahe was bored in every possible way. He mentioned a recent rumor among students that a group of zombies landed in Taiwan from sampans in mainland China and wandered in the central mountainous area.That rumor was very popular at the time, and even appeared in newspapers and magazines. "Don't tell me that, I'm very timid." Shen Jiayi was displeased, and Ah He immediately shut up. Ah, I don't know much, but I'm smarter than scary and bullshit. "I heard that those zombies were not zombies at the beginning, but were drowned in the Taiwan Strait when fishermen from the mainland were smuggling, and their swollen corpses followed the empty boat..." I said, but was interrupted by Shen Jiayi's stern eyes. "Ke Jingteng, don't keep saying things that I don't like to hear, that's not nutritious." Shen Jiayi said without reservation. Well, I really started to get scared.See how I continue to scare you. "Because of hitting Yinshi, those swollen corpses turned into zombies when they landed, and started running towards the mountains under the moonlight, sucking blood all the way while running foolishly, not knowing where they were going. I My brother is a student of Changhua Junior High School. He said that at night, people saw the group of zombies jumping on the top of Bagua Mountain. Nothing will be spread suddenly. There must be something..." The more I talked, the more vigorous I started. Of course Ah He listened intently. "But it doesn't make sense that the corpse will turn into a zombie as soon as it lands? Is Yinshi so powerful?" Ah He was a little skeptical. "That's why some people say that it was the shipowner who knew magic that killed the stowaway, and then used Maoshan magic to control the corpse into a zombie. Unexpectedly, the shipowner himself was bitten to death by the zombie, and let those brainless zombies go all the way. Suck blood and go shopping on the street." I vividly observed Shen Jiayi's tangled expression from time to time. "This is ridiculous, how did it spread like this? Besides, what can the shipowner do if he turns them into zombies?" Ah He was puzzled, but he had already stepped into my dark realm. "How do I know that? I'm just sure that when the police from the Coast Guard arrived at the scene, they found the shipowner's body and the bite marks of zombies on the body. You can find news about this in newspapers, and it can't be faked. Yes, according to which zombies are jumping and jumping, they will pass Dazhu in the next few days..." I deliberately mentioned Dazhu, where Shen Jiayi's family lives, to make the atmosphere of fear even stronger. I saw Shen Jiayi's face getting uglier, but I didn't stop talking nonsense. "You can figure it out yourself." Shen Jiayi suddenly lowered her head and gently pushed my reference book forward a few centimeters. I was a little dumbfounded, and Ahe stopped asking questions in embarrassment. "Hey, I was just joking. In fact, those zombies didn't want to jump to Dazhu, they should have jumped along the central mountain range to the tail of Taiwan." I was at a loss, watching Shen Jiayi who bowed her head and said nothing, forced herself to reverse the case. But Shen Jiayi didn't speak, just kept silent, treating me like an air without nutrition, and studying her homework by myself.I said a few more words and there was no response, so I had to go back to my seat angrily and solve the math in boredom. For the next few days, Shen Jiayi still ignored me.I thought I would be fine if I endured it for a few more days, but Shen Jiayi's temper seemed to be so tough that I didn't expect it. Every morning after I threw my breakfast into the drawer, I lay down on my stomach and pretended to be asleep as usual, but my back never got that sharp call anymore.Shen Jiayi didn't talk to me at all, and avoided looking at each other as we passed by in the corridor, and I simply didn't look back, so as not to touch Shen Jiayi's cold face.Shen Jiayi and Ahe talked more and more, sometimes the voice was so loud that I couldn't hear it clearly even if I didn't want to, which made the air in my chest more and more turbid. The monthly exam was getting closer and closer, but my heart was getting more and more depressed. I wanted to say that I would just get kicked into the third class of art, so that I would not have to suffer from this unrelieved anger. If I go back in time, I can't tell Shen Jiayi another ghost story to force Shen Jiayi's ears, but if I apologize afterwards, I can't do it because I was so proud at the time, after all, I have missed the golden moment of apology. "Ke Jingteng, have you quarreled with Shen Jiayi? I haven't seen you talking recently." The monster looked at the sky. "Fuck, you don't understand." I also looked at the sky. "Sure enough, it's a quarrel. What are you guys arguing about? Your grades are so bad, how could you have a quarrel with Shen Jiayi?" The monster turned to look at me, puzzled. Damn, what kind of nonsense logic is this, thanks to your grades are better than mine.Monster, you can't go on like this, you won't be able to get a normal girlfriend. "Monster, are you familiar with Tinker Bell?" I asked, crossing my legs. "Uncooked, red shrimp?" The monster laughed. "Borrow me a time machine." I said, looking at the cloud. If I continue to look at the sky like this, sooner or later I will become like a monster. Days were getting more and more boring, and going to school every day became a stressful chore. Three days before the exam, Ah He, who was sitting behind me on the right, patted me on the shoulder and handed me a note, which said: "Bring over the history, geography, and health education textbooks." It was Shen Jiayi's beautiful handwriting. I was in a complicated mood, and I wanted to be awkward and refused to do so, but my hand spontaneously untied the schoolbag hanging on the edge of the table, stretched a few textbooks over my head, and let Shen Jiayi who was sitting behind take them. When school was over, Shen Jiayi passed by my desk, gently placed those textbooks in front of me, and went to take her school bus as if nothing had happened.I still didn't speak to her, just opened the textbook. Unsurprisingly, it was filled with line after line of comments and line after line of fluorescent marks. "Are you worried about me, or look down on me?" I had mixed feelings in my heart. At that time, I really wanted to own a time machine. The last monthly exam in the second semester of the second grade ended, and the summer vacation passed smoothly. Shen Jiayi, the tutor of the whole summer vacation, didn't say a word to me.When I talk to Ah He, Shen Jiayi concentrates on doing her own thing. When Shen Jiayi talks to Ah He, I will never turn around and interject to make fun of myself. On the first day of the third grade, Director Lai stood in front of the podium, holding a list of Class C and announcing the students who had been eliminated. The atmosphere was chilling.I finally couldn't help kneeling on the ground, leaning on the chair with my palms together and praying. "Why are you so naive? You won't be kicked out at all." Shen Jiayi said suddenly with a stern look. "Why?" I was at a loss. "Because I'm helping you." The corners of Shen Jiayi's mouth rose a little. Director Lai finished reading the student numbers and names on the list, and sure enough, I was not there. Without me, without me. "Congratulations." Shen Jiayi grinned, as if there had never been any embarrassment between us. "..." For the first time, I was speechless. I can't say "Once I get serious, I'm so powerful that even I will be scared!".Do you say "please, this kind of thing is easy!".I can't say anything. Director Lai finished reading the list, and immediately sent everyone a new class number and arranged new seats.The new seat means that the shabby reason I left Art Class A will also disappear. "Ke Jingteng, you did a good job sitting in front of Shen Jiayi, I hope you will keep it up." Director Lai looked at me reassuringly and patted me on the shoulder. Shit, I really wanted to yell next to Director Lai's ear: "Put me in front or behind Shen Jiayi, on the left or right, or I'll be arguing like a bomb!" But no. Shen Jiayi looked at me, the seat to her right was still empty. "You go and sit there. From today onwards, you will seriously study for the joint entrance exam. You are very smart, and you will work hard to see if you can enter the red list and create miracles." Director Lai pointed to an empty seat that I couldn't understand, and all the expectations in my heart suddenly hollowed out. Behind Li Xiaohua. A location that opens the story of Yuelao.