After attending class for 10 days after the final exam, the school had finally ended.
Because Lotus Pillar Bay was far away from the county’s High School, Wei Ying usually lived at school’s dorm and returned home once a month.
He put the study materials and clothes into a big plastic luggage bag and took the county bus twice to go back to Lotus Pillar Bay.
Lotus Pillar Bay was the furthest village in Yanping County.
The scenery was beautiful but the land was poor. The green tea trees in the terraced fields reflected on each other.
When the spring rain came, hundreds of peach blossoms on the banks of the Yanping River in the mountains were full of mists, and the flowers bloom on the stream.
However, most local villagers didn’t have much leisure to admire the scenery and flowers.
In recent years, the Internet had attracted some idlers who came to sketch and took pictures.
Several wealthy farmers had opened farmhouses. With the completion of roads in the county, more and more guests came here.
Wei Ying’s family was on the mountain side by the Yanping River.
There was a small brick house with white walls and grey roof.
His mother, Yu Ziyuan and father, Wei Zhuliu were both native villagers in Lotus Pillar Bay.
Wei Zhuliu worked in other places all year round, and Yu Ziyuan occasionally went to the village’s farmhouse and tea factory to do odd jobs during her free time.
His younger sister Wei Yanli was thirteen years old and had just had the first day of summer vacation in middle school.
With sharp ears, Wei Yanli quickly ran out to meet Wei Ying when she heard the movement in the hallway, almost tripping over the fertilizer bag on the ground because of excitement.
When Wei Ying saw Wei Ying coming out, he grabbed her by the arm and hurried to the room.
“Don’t come out, the sun is too hot today.” He put down his bag, closed the wooden door, turned and looked down at Wei Yanli’s face.
The little girl was a little fat and she wore a tight trousers. She had a shiny natural curly hair, and a pair of almond eyes.
Wei Yanli suffered from Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and had been taking medicine to maintain it.
“Ge, I heard from my classmates that you are the number one in the county this time! You are going to Gusu City to study when school starts!”
Wei Yanli was on vacation early, helping Yu Ziyuan with some farm work at home and looking forward to Wei Ying’s return every day.
The news spread quickly, and it was estimated that Yu Ziyuan knew about it too. It saved the effort to talk to her.
Wei Ying nodded, but there was no excitement on his face like when he first knew it. If it weren’t for Wei Yanli, he wouldn’t want to return to this house.
After sunset, the siblings took the dried tea leaves on the dojo.
Later, when Yu Ziyuan returned from the tea factory, Wei Ying was cooking in the kitchen.
She picked up the enamel cup on the chopping board, drank a few sips of herbal tea and walked to the kitchen.
When she was young, Yu Ziyuan was famous for her aggressive personality in Lotus Pillar Bay.
After ten or twenty years of wasteful time and years of hard work, her skin was dark and yellow and wrinkled, her once-beautiful apricot eyes were yellow and drooping, and her personality became reticent and silent.
Yu Ziyuan looked at the son in front of her.
He was born with fair skin. He grew up in the countryside for so many years and did a lot of farm work, but he was still white and clean, like those art students who came to Lotus Pillar Bay from the city to paint and sketch.
“I heard Sister Shu’s son say that you are going to study in Gusu City next year?”
Yu Ziyuan sat on the stool next to the stove to face the fire. The tone was strange, didn’t sound like Wei Ying’s mother.
Wei Ying held the spatula and didn’t look at Yu Ziyuan. He didn’t like the way Yu Ziyuan looked at him. This always reminded him of his ridiculous fate behind this look.
“Gusu No. 1 High School will support my living expenses. Every month, 1500. I will leave 800 for Yanli to see doctor and buy medicinal products.” Wei Ying said with his eyes down, his tone was not fluctuating.
Yu Ziyuan was silent and used tongs to clamp a piece of wood into the stove.
The irritability in Wei Ying’s heart suddenly surged like a stove filled with wood. What he hated most was Yu Ziyuan’s seemingly tolerant silence, which made him couldn’t help but say something bad.
“Don’t worry, I will not go to your son and ruin his life. Gusu City is so big, where would I look for him even if I want to find him?”
“I didn’t mean that.” Yu Ziyuan said.
That’s what you mean.
Wei Ying sneered silently, but after that, he didn’t speak any more.
Wei Ying did not idle during the 30-day summer vacation. Except for some farm work, he took a fixed time every day to review the content taught by the teachers at Gusu High School.
He also helped Wei Yanli with her homework.
The little girl was a bit excluded in school and couldn’t study.
Whenever he had the chance, he would be the mannequin for the art students, and the pay was 100 yuan. Because the mouth was sweet and he was good-looking, the art students sometimes gave him some additional tips.
He would also be models for some photographers, but the fees would be much higher because these photographers liked to inquire about his family situation, on the pretext they wanted to record different lives.
Wei Ying knew their psychology and made up some tragic stories according to what they liked, either the father was dead or the mother was gone.
Occasionally, he painted with art students, and they lent him their brushes so he painted generously.
“Wow, little brother, you really haven’t learned how to paint? How can you paint better than what we have learned.” The girls from the academy of fine arts were painting landscapes individually, but now they all leaned to Wei Ying’s side to see his paintings.
The paintbrush in Wei Ying’s hand stopped, he really didn’t want them to see it because he painted Lan Zhan.
In the painting, the young man in the white shirt was looking sideways and down. The peach blossoms outside the window were concealed by a bright moon.
He no longer knew which Lan Zhan he had painted. He had a sketchbook in which every picture in it was Lan Zhan, sitting or standing, reading or writing.
In fact, the real Lan Zhan he could see was very limited. These paintings were all the moon he imagined.
“So handsome, who is this person?” the girl exclaimed and asked.
Wei Ying smiled perfunctorily, thanked them after painting, and ran away with the painting.
In fact, he had liked painting since he was a child, and he was born with talent better than others.
But Yu Ziyuan once saw his paintings, and she went crazy that she stuffed all the paintings into the stove and burned them all.
He was frightened that time and only dared to paint quietly after that.
Later, he finally understood why Yu Ziyuan was so angry.
The summer vacation soon passed.
Wei Ying left most of the two thousand yuan he earned to buy medicine for Wei Yanli, leaving only five hundred as extra expenses to go to Gusu High School.
At the end of August, Wei Ying packed up his¹luggage and prepared to set off.
Wei Yanli insisted on sending him out. He stroke a handful of his sister’s natural rolls and flatly refused.
Wei Ying didn’t say a word to Yu Ziyuan. He took the luggage and got on the bus to the Yanping High School.
Several leaders and many teachers from the school came to see him off.
The teachers surrounded Wei Ying and exhorted like an old mother, as if sending the child to the battlefield, letting him go without too much pressure, saying that it was normal for him to be unable to keep up and advising him to adjust his mentality and get along well with teachers and classmates.
The Chinese teacher was an old man and had always liked Wei Ying.
The old man stuffed a pack of home-made candies into Wei Ying’s arms and encouraged him: “My child, you are excellent, not worse than the students in Gusu High School. You are neither humble nor overbearing, so be a little more confident!”
Wei Ying nodded and said thank you. He had always liked to eat candies, but even if they had them at home, they gave it Wei Yanli.
He knew that what the old man said about being neither humble nor overbearing was actually telling him not feel inferior.
But in fact, he had never experienced low self-esteem growing up. Even when he saw Lan Zhan, he crazily wanted to get close to him, stood beside him, and became a good person like him instead of being ashamed.
Wang Yi Zhou, who had not spoken all the time, said suddenly: “If you have a conflict with your classmates, don’t fight. There won’t necessarily be someone there to protect you.”
Wei Ying suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Wang Yi Zhou.
He must know that he had never had a fight in Yanping High School. He had always been a good student, at least in front of the teacher.
Wang Yi Zhou coughed and whispered: “Don’t worry about your sister, she will be transferred to Teacher Den’s class immediately. No one will dare to bully her in the future.”
Wei Ying looked at Wang Yi Zhou in silence for a while, and suddenly, he bowed very solemnly to all the teachers present and said thank you.
“I will definitely be the first student in Yanping County to pass the exam.”
This time he was not perfunctory.
The teachers sent Wei Ying to the school gate.
Wang Yi Zhou took Wei Ying, and the two of them carried large and small luggage bags.
They took a bus to the nearest prefecture-level city. They ate two buckets of instant noodles at the train station and waited until midnight to get on the high-speed rail.
After sitting all night, they finally arrived at Gusu City at noon the next day.
Wei Ying never went out that far and Wang Yi Zhou also rarely went out. The two were very dizzy at the high-speed rail station for a while, and did not understand the bus and subway routes.
Finally, Wang Yi Zhou gritted his teeth and took a taxi to Gusu High School. Wei Ying wanted to pay the taxi fee, but Wang Yi Zhou didn’t let him.
The moment Wei Ying got off the car and saw the gate of Gusu No. 1 High School, Wei Ying felt that he was dreaming and his feet were a little soft.
A big and a small couple accompanied by a big luggage bag and a small luggage bag at the school gate were a little out of place and bleak.
Wang Yi Zhou was taken aback for a while before he took out his mobile phone and made a call while Wei Ying looked up at the gate of Gusu No. 1 High School greedily.
A tall building with simple lines. The seven characters of “Gusu City No. 1 High School” were engraved on white marble.
Looking past the automatic metal door, there was a wide asphalt road, with green leaves on both sides undulating with the sound of cicadas, concealing the crimson building at the end.
Wei Ying sighed in his heart, this had more style than the crumbling rust iron door in Yanping High School.
Soon a pudgy middle-aged male teacher walked quickly on that road.
Wei Ying saw this teacher on the screen for nearly a year. He was Shen Xiao Hai, the head teacher and Mathematics teacher of the first class. He watched the hairline on the head recede with his own eyes.
The feeling of the people on the screen suddenly becoming alive was quite strange.
Wei Ying squinted his eyes and raised the corners of his mouth to show a shy smile when Shen Xiao Hai came to him.
“Report! The first place in Yanping County had come to our class! There are still 500 meters away from the classroom!”
In the early morning of the first day of school, a boy rushed from the corridor into the classroom at the end of the third floor of the Gusu High School.
The students who bowed their heads all over the classroom hurriedly raised their heads.
“Xiao Sang, male or female?”
“Male!” The boy who reported the news was Nei Huaisang. He flew back to the desk to continue copying his English homework.
The boys suddenly let out a disappointed voice.
Their class was already dying and declining, and they had originally imagined a beautiful and innocent farm girl.
“Handsome?” asked Luo Qingyang, the English class representative who was urging him to hand in the English homework and unselfishly pulled out the English homework book from Nei Huaisang, who was working hard.
“Wait! It’s almost the last one!”
Nei Huaisang chased and wrote an option, and finally said with a sigh of relief: “I didn’t see it clearly, it seems to be quite thin and white.”
Luo Qingyang glanced at the empty seat behind Nei Huaisang and sighed.
Nei Huaisang knew who she was thinking about, so he said in a sour tone: “Even if he’s handsome, can he be more handsome than Lan Xuesheng?“
Luo Qingyang rolled her eyes and said, “Just more handsome than you.”
Wei Ying, who was imagined as a farm girl, was wearing a new school uniform that he had fortunately done in the morning after washing it last night, and now he was following Shen Xiao Hai to the classroom.
After Wang Yi Zhou sent him to the dormitory to settle down, he hurried back without stopping.
Because school hadn’t started, the roommates hadn’t come yet.
Wei Ying slept in the four-person room all night and was taken to the cafeteria early in the morning by Shen Xiao Hai to have a free hearty breakfast.
Shen Xiao Hai had been tirelessly introducing the situation of the school and the class along the way, with the encouragement of “don’t be nervous”, “take it easy” and “you can” from time to time.
Wei Ying had always been a person who knew what to say in different situation. At the beginning, he responded very cooperatively, but he couldn’t do it later.
He was very unaccustomed to others being too attentive to him, but finally understood why Shen Xiao Hai’s nickname was Auntie Shen.
When passing by the hall on the first floor of the teaching building, Aunt Shen, oh no, Shen Xiao Hai also took Wei Ying to stand in front of the tall glass curtain wall to admire the honor list.
“You see, there are a lot of students in our Class 1 here and they will become your classmates in the future.” Shen Xiao Hai triumphantly scanned the photos and names of the students in his class.
Under each photo, there was also an aphorism like “Learning without thinking is worthless, thinking without learning is perishable”.
Wei Ying saw Lan Zhan’s photos at a glance.
One was because he appeared most frequently, and the other was that he was the best-looking, but there was only a name under the photo. There were no sentences.
When Shen Xiao Hai saw Wei Ying staring at the photo in a daze, he secretly yelled.
He thought that this student from the mountain felt inferior when he saw the outstanding classmates.
He took a sharp turn and led him upstairs, before he said kindly: “The students in a class are lively, enthusiastic, humble and cheerful. You will definitely fit in well!”
This was the third time Wei Ying had listened to Shen Xiao Hai’s lively and enthusiastic.
Wei Ying raised the corner of his mouth and smiled, and said for the third time: “I will get along well with my classmates.”
Yes, he was still a little nervous at first, but he lost his emotions when Shen Xiao Hai did anything like this.
There was even a sense of relief when he walked to the door of the classroom.
A class of students was practicing English listening for English self-study class.
The moment Shen Xiao Hai and Wei Ying walked in, they clicked the cassette and it disappeared.
Wei Ying instantly felt all the gazes fell on him. He had no intention of trying to figure out the meaning of these gazes, so he quickly glanced down the stage in the dense line of sight.
Not here.
Wei Ying suppressed the doubts and disappointments in his heart, and after Shen Xiao Hai’s passionate opening remarks, he was asked to introduce himself to the class.
“Hello everyone, my name is Wei Ying and I come from Yanping County High School. I am very happy to come to Gusu No. 1 High School to study.”
In fact, he had repeated countless self-introductions on the road, but now he suddenly lost his mood.
Shen Xiao Hai was stunned, was it done? Nothing more, kids nowadays loved to pretend to be cool, or maybe he was too nervous.
Shen Xiao Hai thoughtfully gave Wei Ying a reason, pointed his finger at the last row of the classroom, and said kindly: “The last seat in the fifth row is yours. Yes, it was all tidied up yesterday.”
The whole class turned around and looked at the last row at the same time.
There were two empty seats next to each other.
One of them was added yesterday, and the other…
Wei Ying nodded. Just as he was about to step off the podium, a tall figure suddenly walked into the door of the classroom.
He subconsciously turned his head to look over, and was suddenly nailed to the place.
“Lan Zhan, how come you are late on the first day of school!” Shen Xiao Hai said to the boy who walked in the door sadly, as if looking at his unfilial son who went astray.
The unfilial son was carrying a black schoolbag behind him, one hand casually hooked the schoolbag strap while the other hand was holding a bottle of iced mineral water.
There was no expression on his stern face and he said indifferently: “There was a car accident on the road.”
Wei Ying sighed in his heart, but the expression on his face did not change. He looked at Lan Zhan calmly.
No matter how clear the live screen was, it would inevitably be distorted. After seeing it, he found that his paintings still had many flaws and he didn’t make half of his pictures as good-looking at all.
Shen Xiao Hai looked terrified, apparently believing the nonsense, and scanned Lan Zhan up and down, left and right.
After confirming that he was okay, he showed a pleasing smile. He pulled Wei Ying and said to Lan Zhan in the tone of a supermarket salesperson selling new products.
“It’s fine! But you just missed the new classmate’s self-introduction. Come, let me introduce you. This classmate is named Wei Ying, who is the first in Yanping County! Do you think he can be your tablemate in the future?”
Shen Xiao Hai asked for an opinion, but in fact he had already put the desk next to Lan Zhan before that. He was confident that Lan Zhan would not refuse such trivial matters.
“No, he can’t.” Lan Zhan glanced at Wei Ying, his voice was without emotion.
The class fell silent abruptly.
The smile on the corner of Wei Ying’s mouth also froze.
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