Chapter 14: Don’t interrupt others when they are showing off Just like Coke, the price of a photocopy of your household registration booklet at a photo studio is the same as it was 20 years ago. Black and white, A4 paper, cents per sheet, two sheets are one dollar. Even Fang Wei couldn't help but feel a little sad and called him a profiteer! The boss is cheerful. He makes a lot of money during the start of each semester. It is definitely a good idea to open a store next to a school. The three of them took their household registration books and copies and pushed their bicycles into the campus. The gate was open, and there was only an old man guarding the gate. He was sitting leisurely on a chair smoking a cigarette. When he saw three kids pushing bicycles, he pointed somewhere casually: "You can't park your bikes randomly. Park them over there in the parking lot, near the row of trees by the wall. Remember to park them properly." Fang Wei and the other two went over to stop the car. There are a few bicycles and two motorcycles parked here and there, probably belonging to teachers or parents who come to register. Even in the town, there are very few families with cars, and the control over private cars entering the islands is relatively strict. Once you enter the campus, you naturally have to visit the area. Xu Cailing and Fang Yuansheng had often looked around at the school gate since they were young, but this was their first time entering Baitan Middle School.
In my imagination, the campus would be very big, but after entering and taking a walk around, I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. "It doesn't seem very big! Just a basketball court, a track and field stadium, a teaching building, an administrative building, a dormitory for teachers and students, a canteen, a small shop, a few messy trees, and that's it?!" Fang Yuansheng was very disappointed. "Oh... When I saw it from the outside, I thought it was very big inside, just like the schools I see on TV." Xu Cailing also lost interest. With her leg strength, it would take her less than three minutes to run around the school. Fang Wei found it funny: "You two thought it was a university. We have such a middle school on our island. It is already quite big. People from the surrounding islands all come here to attend classes." “Is the university big?” "Of course. The better the university, the more beautiful and bigger it is. It has libraries, auditoriums, football fields, swimming pools, etc. I have to ride a bicycle to go to class from the dormitory." "Fuck, is this true? I have to ride a bicycle from the dormitory to the classroom?! How big would that be? It must be bigger than our island, right?!" Fang Yuansheng was shocked. "Then are their running tracks made of rubber? The football field is also covered with green grass. Is it okay for your knees to slide on it?" Xu Cailing was also shocked. She couldn't imagine how fast she could run if she ran on such a soft and elastic track. "Of course, whatever you want to know is basically available in the university." Fang Wei didn't go into detail. After all... he had never been to college. Although he was a good student, he only graduated from high school in his previous life. When he was in high school, he went to a big island with better conditions. Novels, games, and Internet cafes distracted him, and his grades kept declining. He no longer cared about studying, and finally he only got into a junior college. Later, he did not continue his studies, but went directly to work in a big city. I still remember that the house he rented was near a university. After work, he often liked to watch the youthful college students talking and laughing at the school gate. Occasionally, he would pretend to be a student and sneak into the university, wandering around aimlessly... People always come to realize things late. Now that I think about it, probably among his peers, no one understands the meaning and importance of reading better than him. …… After the three of them finished touring Baitan Middle School, they headed straight towards the teaching building. Although students from nearby islands come here to attend middle school, there are actually not many students in Baitan Middle School. The teaching building has only four floors. The first floor is the teachers' offices, the second floor is for the first-year junior high school students, the third floor is for the second-year junior high school students, and the fourth floor is for the third-year junior high school students. There are four classes in each grade, and there is no class division. Regardless of their grades, everyone is mixed together in class. There are an average of about 40 students in each class. There is a notice board in the most conspicuous place on the first floor of the teaching building.
"honor roll!" Xu Cailing read it out word by word, and the three of them curiously checked this so-called honor roll. The red paper on the far left contains the results of the school's high school entrance examination this year, including how many students were admitted to high school, the school's high school admission rate, who were the top ten students in the high school entrance examination, etc. The two red papers at the back are the names and scores of the top ten outstanding students in the final exams of the first and second grades of junior high school last semester. The words on the red paper were all handwritten with a thick black pen. I don’t know which teacher’s handwriting it was, but the handwriting was quite beautiful. "We don't have this in our elementary school!" said Xu Cailing. "It would be great if I could get my name on the honor roll!" Fang Yuansheng fantasized. He seemed to have seen his father praising him profusely when he came back from the parents' meeting. "It's indeed a great honor, but it seems to have nothing to do with you, Ah Sheng." Xu Cailing, an expert in hurting people's hearts, immediately added fuel to the fire. "Hey, I didn't say I was on the honor roll. I said Awei! Awei must be number one! But my brother and I are cousins. Isn't that a source of pride for me?" "I, I, then I am proud too!" "Why do you feel proud of me because of your relationship with Ah?" “He’s my neighbor!” Fang Wei: “…” No, I will be the one on the honor roll in the future, how come you guys have finished growing my face?! Well, it may sound a bit arrogant to say this, but Fang Wei felt that what they were thinking was right. Not only must he be on the honor roll, but he must be number one. "Oh, right! Where is the class list?" The two friends then remembered something important. "Here it is." Fang Wei was already looking at the list on the right side of the notice board. Just like in his previous life, the fate was quite good. Fang Wei, Xu Cailing and Fang Yuansheng were all in Class 2 of the first grade. The homeroom teacher was Wen Susu, a teacher he liked very much back then. As I recall, Teacher Wen seemed to have just graduated from college not long ago, and came to this small island from a big inland city to teach. Whether it was her gentle personality, her novel teaching methods, or the stories about faraway places that she often told her students, they all attracted the boys and girls in the class. It’s a pity that Teacher Wen only taught their class for one year and left the school in the second year of junior high school. In that era without WeChat and QQ, I never saw him again. In addition to the names of the three people and the name of the class teacher, Fang Wei also saw many familiar and unfamiliar names. These were all his former junior high school classmates. When I saw these names, the dusty memories in my mind began to flash vaguely. It was clearly the life I had experienced, but when I recalled it, it was always from a third perspective, with laughter, noise, like the flowing film in an old movie. But he couldn't remember some people's names so clearly that he didn't even know if they were other classmates he didn't know after random assignment. It was only after graduation that I realized that the world is so big. No matter whether it is a teacher or former classmates, if we don’t meet them intentionally, we will never see them again. When I left school, I thought it was just an ordinary farewell between us. …… "Hey, look, this female classmate's name is so nice!" The place where Fang Yuansheng pointed his finger had a very poetic name, which stood out among the ordinary names of his classmates. "Liu knows what I want! The south wind knows what I want, and it blows my dreams to Xizhou~!"
Xu Cailing read out the name and was a little excited: "She is also in the same class as us!" "Who is it? When did you become so cultured?" Fang Yuansheng was a little confused: "No, you two actually know someone I don't know?... So there are levels of affection, right? It's a small group, right?!" "What the hell, Awei and I don't know her either, we just know her." "Then she must be very beautiful!" "Huh? You don't even know her, but you know she's pretty?" "It's a nice name, it always makes people think of it." Speaking of the name, Xu Cailing became excited and explained it to Fang Yuansheng excitedly. "Then do you know why Wei and I know her? Because my name is also..." "Liu Zhiyi's grandfather helped to get it." Fang Wei interrupted. Xu Cailing glared at him. Damn it! Don't interrupt her when she's showing off! "What? Is there such a thing?" Fang Yuansheng was stunned. "My name is also very nice, right? Do you know where my name comes from..." "It comes from the Book of Songs, Cai Ling in Tang Dynasty, which is very rich in allusions." “…Ahhhhh! I’ll kill you!!! Can you please shut up!?” Fang Wei laughed out loud with joy and maliciously interrupted the girl's pretense. She was so anxious that she covered his mouth with her hand, as if she wanted to suffocate him to death. Of course, the foul-mouthed Fang Wei survived in the end, but was punched twice by her... (End of this chapter)