Chapter 16 Chapter 15

Some people say that love can turn a trafficker into a poet. it is true. My liking for Shen Jiayi has kept my academic performance in the top 30 in the school, and it also made me start writing songs who don't know staves at all. One after another. Every morning, I go to school by bicycle, go home by bicycle, and take tuition by bicycle. As long as I face the wind, I can hum and sing naturally, and shake out some thoughts about "Shen Jiayi's pure love", Then continue to deliberate, and finally compose a song. Xu Bochun was very surprised by my special function. Both of us are idiots who are super afraid of music class. The black mole on the staff has to be counted up and down with your fingers to know its name; for the flute test, I have to write Do Re Mi on the ivory white flute with a marker , carefully and shamelessly pressed down, until the music teacher turned pale and told me to step off the stage.

Being so ignorant of music theory, I started writing songs. After tutoring, Xu Bochun and I went around to Li Xiaohua's house as usual, and then went around on the way home. On the way, I hummed the first song I wrote for Shen Jiayi, "I will still miss you every day", and asked Xu Bochun to judge it for me.I plan to confess my love to Shen Jiayi after graduation, and sing this song to Shen Jiayi in front of everyone, so moved her that she would be embarrassed not to be with me. "You fart, you wrote this song?" Xu Bochun didn't believe it, and looked at me in surprise.

"Yeah, I don't know why this happened, my words are terrible." I let go of my hands and easily balanced the bicycle. "The point is not the words, is it? How can you compose music? You can't understand the staff!" Xu Bochun was dumbfounded. "Yeah, that's why I memorize them all. Whenever there is a new tune, I hum it until I can't forget it. After a long time, it becomes a song." I added a little proudly, "Not only this one, I There are still three or four poems being written at the same time, when Shen Jiayi suddenly knows that I like her too, she will definitely be very touched by my efforts to wait silently and study hard just to get close to her."

"...Ke Jingteng, you really can't do anything well if you're not in a relationship, but when you're in a relationship, you mess up everything." Xu Bochun expressed his feelings and shook his head. "One hundred percent correct." I laughed. Yes, there is nothing wrong with a youth that relies on love to grow up like this. Full of energy and a fucking messy report card. "It's really pitiful to be your rival in love." Xu Bochun said, after thinking for a while, he continued, "But if you fail after doing so much, tsk tsk, you are the worst I have ever seen. people."

I was silent for a while and didn't reply right away. This is a very serious question, and I didn't open my mouth thoughtfully until I was almost at the door. "Shen Jiayi deserves it." A netizen reader CYM wrote on my bbs personal board: "Waiting is also part of action." That's right, that's it. The long process of waiting for Shen Jiayi, who doesn't want to fall in love and just wants to concentrate on studying, can be said to be the most exciting part of my love battle.It would be a shame if you couldn't enjoy it.If you expect too much, you will really lose all the happiness you deserve.

My attitude towards love is overly mature. But I tried my best to be as childish as possible for the various behaviors born of love. When I used to watch romantic movies or pure love Japanese TV dramas, I often felt that the reason why an affectionate picture can be really affectionate is not only the romantic dialogue, but also the corresponding atmosphere.The "atmosphere" refers to the "background music" that does not exist in real life. "So, I need everyone's strength." I said, looking at the boys who surrounded me. Right around the time the second song, "Lonely Caffeine," was finished, I started teaching the boys in my class to sing the first song I wrote, "I'll Still Think About You Everyday."Boys are very lazy and stupid. It takes two or three years to train them to sing a song and make them catchy, which is safer for my confession.

I lied to everyone that I still have great expectations for Li Xiaohua, and I hope that they can stand with me at the gate of Chang Girls’ School when they have the opportunity, sing this song out loud, and help create super powerful background music for my confession .The condition for these boys in the same class to help me is very simple, that is, when they want to use this kind of song to confess to other girls one day, even if they say that they wrote it for "her". But in fact, the target of my plan is of course Shen Jiayi. When I couldn't face Shen Jiayi with a "love" attitude, I chose to put my position in the position of Shen Jiayi's "good friend".In order to stand firm in this position, and to cooperate with Shen Jiayi who always has little things to talk about, I have to be in the best state to chat with her at all times.

But...how can I be so powerful! After school, during the break in the physics cram school, I sat on the steps at the entrance of the building and discussed my love battle with Xu Bochun, the only one who didn't chase after Shen Jiayi. "What should I do? I often hang up on the phone with Shen Jiayi within ten minutes, because I don't want to make her feel bored, so I just stopped talking." I asked Xu Bochun. "Girls like to chat about Japanese TV dramas, how to dress up, who... who likes who. It seems to be like this." Xu Bochun was absent-minded. He is a little upset today because Liao Yinghong and I scrawled the words "study hard and be a good student" on the strap of his schoolbag in Li Kebai, which looks super stupid.Although Xu Bochun immediately retaliated and used Li Kebai to pay homage to the words "Namo Amitabha Buddha" on the strap of my schoolbag, it was still difficult to get rid of his hatred... because I was written, but I laughed heartily.

"But Shen Jiayi doesn't talk about those things! She asked me last time she gave me the Jingsi Aphorism of Master Cheng Yen, what do I think after reading it! It's big, and I can't pretend I'm interested." I blew my nose. Chatting face to face with Shen Jiayi always has something to say, and it is very natural.But talking on the phone between boys and girls is a profound interpersonal art.At the age of sixteen and a half, I couldn't understand it at all. It's no surprise that some men spend their entire lives unable to speak to a woman on the phone for more than ten minutes.

"That's it... I don't know about other people, but when I heard my sister talking on the phone with friends, she almost said nothing, and talked a lot of nonsense." Xu Bochun recalled. "Unreasonable? It sounds scary." I wrapped my snot in toilet paper. "The more nonsense you talk, the more you can't finish it. On the contrary, you can finish talking about serious things at once. When you talk to girls on the phone, you must talk a lot of nonsense." Xu Bochun spoke convincingly. "Girls really like to talk nonsense and listen to nonsense? Why do I feel that Shen Jiayi is not this kind of girl." I secretly put the full "snot bento" into Xu Bochun's open trouser pocket.

"Then just talk hard, or just do your homework, as long as there are enough serious things, you can still talk for a long time on the phone, right?" Xu Bochun was a little impatient. Unbeknownst to him, the next time he puts his hand in his pocket, he will touch the soft snot lunch box I gave him, and it will explode if he is not careful! "Do your homework?" I asked humbly. "You just take a blank sheet of paper and start listing serious things. When you talk on the phone, you just look at the cheat sheet and tick off one thing after you finish talking... Hey, do you want to buy a drink?" Xu Bochun looked at his watch. , stand up, the rest time is almost over. "Okay. You are quite reasonable." I also patted my buttocks and stood up. We walked together to the convenience store at the entrance of the alley, each picked a drink, and walked to the counter. When Xu Bochun put his hand in his pocket and touched the copper plate to pay the bill, his face changed suddenly. "Is it broken?" I looked at Xu Bochun calmly. "Fuck!" A punch. Later, I really picked up the notebook and copied the "items that can be chatted" at any time. It was really helpful for me and Shen Jiayi to talk on the phone after returning home. tacit agreement.When talking on the phone, I have to take a pen to write down my sudden inspiration at any time, multiplying the entire conversation for a longer time. And before I knew it, the deadline for my bet with Shen Jiayi came up again. I like to see girls tie ponytails very much. If Shen Jiayi, who has a half mushroom head, can change her hairstyle for me, it will be a very pleasing thing. The results of the second monthly exam for the next semester will be announced. It is not the point of Shen Jiayi's ranking in the whole school and my ranking in the whole school.The key is the combined results of the three subjects of Guoying Mathematics. Although the monthly exam had just ended, Shen Jiayi and I stayed at school to study at night, memorizing English words, and listening to the "English classroom in the air" on the Walkman to practice listening.High school students want to study hard, but they are not afraid of not having books. It rained cats and dogs that night. Before eight o'clock, I couldn't help wandering around the classroom on the first floor of the school at seven o'clock, looking for Shen Jiayi's hardworking figure. "Shen Jiayi, I'm so sorry. The sum of my three subjects is probably the highest score in the natural group!" I laughed and walked into the classroom where Shen Jiayi was alone. "Oh? Really? But you still lost." Shen Jiayi was also very happy to see me. "Losing?" I didn't understand. "Liao Yinghong came to me today, and I asked him, and he told me about your grades." Shen Jiayi showed a gratified expression, and continued, "You really worked so much harder than when you were in junior high school, and I am impressed. , fortunately fortunately..." Shen Jiayi said while shaking the monthly exam score sheet in her hand, obviously waiting for me to come to her. I sat down and took a look at the score sheet.Adding up the three subjects, I could barely lose two points... I, who shifted my focus from physics and chemistry to the three subjects of Guoying Mathematics, lost to Shen Jiayi. "Shen Jiayi, are you a monster?" I opened my mouth wide, not at all unconvinced. In the case that I didn't have time to finish the writing and didn't fill in the wrong answers, I pushed my grades to the best limit, and I still lost like this, which is simply too heroic! "Ha, I bet you, I can't be negligent at all." Shen Jiayi smiled happily. happy. Yes, if you are happy, I am very happy. "The monthly exam is over, will you go home early today?" I stood up and stretched thoughtfully. "At most, it should be earlier." Shen Jiayi looked at the rain outside the window. "Wait for me." I waved my hand and left the classroom. Ignoring Shen Jiayi's suspicious expression, I rode my bicycle out of the school in the heavy rain that hurt my body, crossed the "China Land Bridge with a steep enough slope" that I never tire of mentioning, and came to the urban area. Along the way, the rain continued to pour into my eyes along the bangs and eyebrows, making my search for cheap family barber shops even harder.But my mood was soaring. The bicycle stopped at a family barber shop that looked like "even if it's a mess, it's very reasonable". "Boss, help me shave a big crew cut, as short as you want." I pushed open the door. Wet and tired.Fucking handsome. "Ah?" The proprietress was carrying the baby on her back, holding a big bowl of braised noodles in her hand. "Please, please, please shave faster!" I pointed to my head, full of energy. Half an hour later, I rode my bicycle directly into the school and stopped at the door of the classroom where Shen Jiayi was studying. Just when I was about to step in, I suddenly found Shen Jiayi's older sister, Shen Qianyu, who was facing the pressure of the entrance exam.Most of the two sisters will stay in the same classroom when they are going home, waiting for their mother to drive. There was an older sister Shen Qianyu whom I didn't know very well. I was a little embarrassed to go in, and I also wanted to be cool, so I just stood outside the classroom and tapped on the window glass. The two sisters turned their heads at the same time and looked at me who was soaked all over. I pointed to my bald head, winking and smiling. "!" Shen Jiayi was stunned, unable to utter a word. "Oh my god, is that Ke Jingteng?" Shen Qianyu froze for a moment, then laughed. I shrugged, admiring Shen Jiayi's unbelievable expression, and finally burst out laughing. "It's an agreement, be a man." I said proudly, deliberately not wiping the rain off my face. Cool, I turned around and left, riding my bicycle home. It was still drenched in the rain, but the sun was shining in Shen Jiayi's heart because of Shen Jiayi's smile just now. "Damn it, I'm so handsome!" I stroked my crew cut, giggled, and slowly rode my bicycle. On that rainy night, on the bicycle going home, I wrote the third song "Dear Friend" for Shen Jiayi. There is a passage in the lyrics that says: "Dear friend, my lovely good friend, do you think of me, ten years ago, I braved the downpour and cut a big crew cut, I still remember your expression, Your face, your eyes." I only found out later that Shen Jiayi's monthly exam results added up, making her fall outside the top three in the school for the first time. She attaches great importance to the bet between us. When I split the energy that should be spent on science to the three subjects of the game, Shen Jiayi did the same.She sacrificed history and geography just to fight me. Just a few days after I shaved my flat head, I met Shen Jiayi a few times at school. Shen Jiayi tied her ponytail calmly and looked natural. The two exchanged reference books, handouts and examination papers of common subjects as usual. "Next time, let's bet on milk. Two weeks' worth!" I took the handout. "Okay, I'll trouble you again." Shen Jiayi laughed. "Fart." I hummed, blowing air through my nostrils. I didn't ask her why she tied a ponytail since she won.Shen Jiayi didn't mention it herself. I just know I'm happy, very, very happy. Thinking about it now, I still feel that I was really cute before. There is a little affectation of deliberately not wearing a raincoat, and a little self-confident romance of dedicating for love, but so what? If love can't turn a person into a person who doesn't usually appear, then the magic power of love is too small... It is not the kind of love that we pray for day and night, the kind that is qualified to be called love. Until now, I am still a man who is ready to be crazy about love at any time!