Chapter 23 Don't Take the Bus The boys and girls rode their bicycles, talking and laughing along the way. Leaving the village with scattered steps, we drove through the country road with green fields, rode along the winding coastline, and turned right into the Baitan Bridge connecting to the opposite bank. The morning sun shines directly down and the sky is clear and cloudless. Fang Wei raised his head and looked into the distance. Seagulls were circling overhead, the sky was as blue as the sea, and he felt like he was riding in a painting. With such scenery along the way as a companion, commuting seems to become leisurely and pleasant. "Hey, look at that guy!" Xu Cailing pointed in the direction of Baitan Wharf. Just then, several people got off a bus. One of the women hurriedly ran to the corner of the road, bent over and started vomiting. Fang Wei and Ah Sheng looked so disgusted that they said speechlessly, "Xu Cailing, why are you so disgusting? I thought you were showing us something!"
"It's a good thing we ride bicycles to school. If we took the bus, it would be really uncomfortable. I took it once before and it made me vomit." "Aren't you known for never getting seasick or motion sickness?" "But the problem is that this old car is smelly, stuffy and shaking!" "..." This is indeed true. Fang Weiwei has also taken the bus on the island and has a deep understanding of this. Skipping this disgusting topic, the three of them arrived at Baitan Town soon. The town is more lively at this time in the morning than in the afternoon. There are almost no cars on the road. People generally travel by motorcycle or bicycle. Occasionally, a delivery pickup truck accidentally enters the narrow alley and blocks the entire road, causing the sound of motorcycle horns and bicycle bells. Some people on the street come to the market, some go to work or school, some sell vegetables and fish on their shoulder poles, and some children eat buns while walking with their schoolbags on their backs. The gentle light of the morning sun illuminates the fireworks here. This is the most real world. Since they were going to school, Fang Wei and the other two did not join in the fun by wandering around the town. Instead, they rode their bikes straight to the gate of Baitan Middle School. The school gate is equally busy. Above the school gate, the school was very frugal and only hung a red silk cloth with a banner that read: The golden autumn brings coolness and welcomes a new look, and dreams set sail here - warmly welcome the freshmen of the class of 2000! The words were handwritten with a brush. Fang Wei took a closer look at the handwriting and felt that it was very similar to the words written on the honor roll before. It was probably written by a teacher who had some skills in calligraphy. I didn't see any scenes of 'parents sending their children to school' at the school gate. Everyone came to school alone or in groups. The students who were not wearing school uniforms, had childish faces, and were obviously shorter in height were probably all freshmen in the first year of junior high school; They are wearing blue and white school uniforms, have childish faces but are obviously much taller. They must be students in the second or third year of junior high school. Looking at the four stages of elementary school, junior high school, high school and university, the easiest age to distinguish is junior high school students. After all, they are in the rapidly developing adolescence, and it is true that they change every year. There was a vendor on a tricycle selling breakfast at the school gate, and many students were surrounding him buying breakfast. Two steamed buns cost 50 cents each, and all kinds of buns cost 50 cents each, and they are all very big. Soy milk costs 50 cents a cup, and a box of vegetarian fried noodles costs 50 cents each. Fried noodles with an egg and a few slices of ham cost one dollar... The three of them had already had breakfast, so they didn't buy another one. After getting off the bus at the school gate, they pushed their bicycles into the school gate just like their classmates who were entering the school together. Fang Wei raised his wrist to check the time. It was almost the same as he estimated. When the weather was good, it would take less than 30 minutes to get from home to school.
For freshmen like Xu Cailing and Fang Yuansheng who were attending middle school for the first time, everything seemed new and curious when they first entered school, and their expressions also looked quite excited. There are many students who come to school by bicycle. There is a long row of bicycles under the shade of the trees near the wall, which is almost entirely filled with bicycles. "Here, here! Let's stop here. There's shade!" Xu Cailing called out, and Fang Wei and A Sheng pushed the cart over together and stopped under the shade of the tree. A Sheng's car comes with a lock. He swiped it downwards and the lock went through the rear wheel hub and locked with a click. Xu Cailing's car didn't have a built-in lock, so she took out a U-shaped lock from the basket, first wrapped it around her own rear wheel, then connected it to Fang Wei's rear wheel, and with a click, she locked the two cars together. Fang Wei was stunned for a moment and said speechlessly: "No, my car is locked by itself, why did you lock my car!" "To prevent you from running away on your own after school without waiting for me and Asheng!" "…It's always been you and Sheng who run faster than me after school, right?!" "Hey, we'll wait for you." "..." There is no surveillance in schools these days, so it is still necessary to lock the bike. There are so many people and bikes here, otherwise you won’t know who has taken the bike away. As long as the bike is locked, even with the simplest lock, no one dares to tamper with it. After parking the bike, the three of them walked towards the teaching building together. Unlike the quietness on the registration day, the teaching building was bustling on the first day of school. The first grade students on the second floor are fine. Everyone is new and doesn't know each other very well, and the classmates are very reserved towards each other. But it's different for the second and third grade students upstairs. They have gotten used to the wildness during the long summer vacation, and now the classrooms are very noisy. Even through the thin floor, you can hear all kinds of chasing and fighting sounds in the corridor above. When I walked into the classroom, most of my classmates had already arrived. There was no seating arrangement at this moment, so everyone sat scattered around, but they all sat with people they knew. Although they all came from small island villages of all sizes around, they could always find companions. Fang Wei roughly counted and found that there were already 28 people in the class. There were 42 people in the class in total, and almost everyone was there now. The three of them were relatively late. The consequence of arriving late is that the seats you like have been picked by others first, leaving only a few seats closest to the podium empty. After all, top students are a minority, and most students are not willing to get too close to the teacher at the podium. "Let's sit here!" Seeing that there was no seat to choose from, Xu Cailing sat down in an empty seat in the first row. Fang Wei and A Sheng sat at the same table behind her. Perhaps it was the girl's youthful beauty that attracted the attention of her classmates. Fang Wei clearly felt that everyone was staring at her. Similarly, the three-person team from Donghua Village was also secretly looking at the classmates around them. Few people took the initiative to talk to new classmates they didn't know. Only small groups of students who knew each other were whispering. They may not know Fang Wei, but Fang Wei can recognize them to some extent. When I recall the past, it is difficult to remember what my junior high school classmates looked like. But when I see their faces in person, those fragmented scenes in my memory come to my mind one by one, as if they were replayed yesterday. Lu Jialiang...was this kid so shy when he first started school? Liu Yongshu...your face was so clean when you didn’t have acne? Wang Yushan... Huh? She didn't wear glasses before? Jiang Yuanxin... Damn, the King of Force is still the King of Force. Everyone is talking, but you are actually reading a book?
Because of his vague memory, Fang Wei was unable to accurately call out the name of each classmate, but he was still impressed by some of his former classmates. Now the process of getting to know them again was quite interesting, as they were somewhat different from the impressions in his memory. Fang Wei looked around carefully and found that a familiar figure seemed to be missing. By the way, where's Liu Zhiyi? Hasn't she come yet? He raised his wrist to check the time. He had specially set his watch five minutes ahead, and it now showed seven-thirty, which meant there were still five minutes left before the actual class time. There is a wall clock at the back of the classroom. The reason why the wall clock is not placed in front of the podium is because it is for the teacher to see the time. I guess the battery of the wall clock has run out of power after a summer vacation, and it is not moving at this moment. Just as the class was about to start, a hurried figure appeared outside the classroom door. Fang Wei looked over, and all the classmates looked over as well. It’s Liu Zhiyi. Her long hair was tied into a ponytail. Her forehead was covered in sweat, perhaps because it was hot or for some other reason, and her pretty face looked very pale. After entering the classroom, she stood there for a while, glanced at her classmates, and seeing that there were no empty seats, she walked to the front row and found an empty table to sit down by herself. No one talked to her, no one sat at the same table with her, and no one knew her. She didn't talk to anyone. After she sat down in the rightmost corner of the front row, she just sat there quietly. It took a long time before his pale face gradually turned a little red. Liu Zhiyi had only moved to the village for two or three days and didn't know any of her classmates. Probably except Fang Wei, no one knew her name or which village she was from. Even Xu Cailing, who kept saying "please be more helpful and considerate to others" all day long, only knew the person's name, but not what he looked like. "Wow, that girl is so pretty!" Xu Cailing hurriedly shared it with her two friends and told them to look at the beauty. "Do you think she is the girl with the nice name?" A Sheng asked curiously. "I don't know... Oh, which one is Liu Zhiyi?" Xu Cailing was also curious and looked left and right. "It must be her!" Ah Sheng was quite sure. "…I don't know if she is Liu Zhiyi, but I know that she must have taken the bus to school and then vomited!" Cai Ling made a rigorous analysis and sounded like Conan. (End of this chapter)