Meng Yan's Transformation

Ever since the caterpillar incident, Zhan Mengyan has been very careful every time she opens her pencil case, fearing that something scary might appear inside. Fortunately, no more accidents happened.

When she was in junior high school, most of her homework was written with a fountain pen, except for English, which was written with a pencil. Zhan Mengyan's fountain pen was brought back by Zhan Zichuan from the army. When Zhan Mengyan entered junior high school, Zhan Zichuan gave it to her. But after Zhan Zichuan started dating Wang Guizhi, he asked Zhan Mengyan for the fountain pen back and gave it to his fiancée. Zhan Mengyan was a little sad about this, and Zhan Zichuan felt bad about it, so he pieced together a fountain pen for Zhan Mengyan from Dong Zijie's discarded fountain pens. Because of the caterpillar incident, Zhan Mengyan dropped her pencil case on the ground, breaking the assembled fountain pen. She repaired and assembled it herself, but the pen bag leaked some fountain pen ink. If the pen bag was full of fountain pen ink, it would leak more severely, so Zhan Mengyan had to bring a bottle of fountain pen ink to school every day. She only needed to put a little fountain pen ink in the fountain pen bag, which was better than the fountain pen dipped in water.

Ever since Zhan Mengyan brought a bottle of fountain pen ink to school, Lu Zhigang asked Zhan Mengyan for fountain pen ink every day. In order to use the fountain pen ink for a longer time, Zhan Mengyan added water to the fountain pen ink. However, the words she wrote were light blue.

One day during self-study class, Zhan Mengyan was doing her homework with her head down, and Lv Zhigang asked her for pen ink again. Lv Zhigang asked for Zhan Mengyan's pen ink and gave it to the classmate who squeezed into the seat behind her. The two of them went back and forth, squeezing the pen ink back and forth on Zhan Mengyan's back. As a result, he accidentally squeezed the pen ink onto Zhan Mengyan's back. Zhan Mengyan was wearing a pink Dacron top at the time. This was her only Dacron top, and she loved it very much. Lv Zhigang immediately left a fist-sized blue pen ink mark on it. Zhan Mengyan couldn't accept it and insisted that Lv Zhigang compensate for the clothes. The two argued, and the head teacher Zhao Jinglei asked Lv Zhigang to take the pink Dacron top stained with pen ink home to explain the situation to his parents.

The next day, Lu Zhigang returned the washed pink Dacron clothes to Zhan Mengyan.

Zhan Mengyan opened the clothes and saw that the pink clothes seemed to have an extra "birthmark", which would hang on her back if she put on the clothes.

Zhan Mengyan went to the office to find her homeroom teacher Zhao Jinglei and asked him to see the washed clothes.

"Student Zhan Mengyan, don't be so pretentious. Take the clothes home and ask your mother to wash them a few more times. The pen watermarks on the clothes will become less and less. As the head of the class, you must behave like a monitor and be generous. Don't go to the teacher to solve problems because of trivial matters. Go back to class, study hard, don't think about this matter, focus on your studies, and try to apply to join the league next month." said the head teacher Zhao Jinglei.

Zhan Mengyan felt very upset after hearing what her homeroom teacher Zhao Jinglei said.

After school, Zhan Mengyan went home and gave the pink Dacron clothes to Yunqing and explained the situation. Yunqing soaked the clothes in water for a night, washing the fabric until it was fuzzy and about to be damaged. However, there was still a birthmark-like mark, but it was much lighter than before.

"Mom, I don't want to carry a fountain pen and water bottle to school every day. My fountain pen is leaking. I want to ask Brother Zixun to return the fountain pen that my homeroom teacher Gao Qinghai gave me before I returned to Liaoning from Heilongjiang."

It was a emerald green (commonly known as green onion green) nib-covered fountain pen - a lightweight and exquisite Hero brand fountain pen.

Zhan Mengyan vaguely remembered that day, she took the New Year's money that she had used for many years and lingered in front of the window of the supply and marketing cooperative for a long time, attracting the attention of the saleswoman.

"Little girl, what do you want to buy? Do you want some candy? Or do you want some biscuits? Are you afraid that you don't have enough money? Take out the money and let me see how much you can buy?" the saleswoman asked gently.

"Auntie, I want to buy a pack of cigarettes..." Zhan Mengyan walked forward and answered timidly with her big, blinking eyes.

"Oh, when I look closely, you really look like a pretty little doll. Do you want to buy a pack of cigarettes? What brand? Did your father ask you to buy cigarettes for him?" the saleswoman asked happily.

"My family is moving back to Liaoning Province. I want to give my homeroom teacher a gift before leaving Heilongjiang, but I don't have that much money. I thought I'd just buy him a pack of cigarettes. I saw that he likes to smoke Grape brand cigarettes. I heard that there are also high-end filter cigarettes, but I don't know what to buy." Zhan Mengyan said sweetly.

"Oh, so that's how it is. You are such a kind and sentimental child. Please take out the money so I can see what brand of cigarettes you can buy." said the saleswoman.

"Auntie, I only have 42 cents." Zhan Mengyan bit her lip and said embarrassedly.

"Little doll girl, then you can only buy Grape brand cigarettes without filters, which are 38 cents. You will have 4 cents left to buy candy." said the saleswoman.

"Auntie, then just give me a pack of Grape cigarettes. I'll keep the remaining four cents to buy pencils when I go back to Liaoning to go to school."

Zhan Mengyan stood at the door of her class teacher Gao Qinghai's house for a long time, holding a Grape brand cigarette, but she didn't wait for Gao Qinghai to come out. Finally, she mustered up the courage and was about to knock on Gao Qinghai's door. Gao Qinghai's wife came out to get some water and saw Zhan Mengyan.

"Qinghai, come out and take a look. There is a beautiful little girl standing at the door of our house." Gao Qinghai's wife shouted.

"Hello, teacher's wife! I am Teacher Gao's student, my name is Zhan Mengyan." Zhan Mengyan bowed to Gao Qinghai's wife and said.

Teacher Gao Qinghai came out in a hurry upon hearing the voice and said enthusiastically, "Student Zhan Mengyan, come in quickly. I was just about to visit you at your house. I heard that your family is moving back to your hometown in Liaoning. When are you leaving? Do you have something to talk to me about?"

"Teacher Gao, I will be leaving the day after tomorrow. I came here today to say goodbye to you and to thank you for your help and care. I bought you a pack of cigarettes. When you are tired, smoke a cigarette to relieve your fatigue... I... I... I can't bear to leave Teacher Gao. I will miss you no matter where I go..." Zhan Mengyan put down the cigarette and ran out of the house crying...

"Student Zhan Mengyan, wait a minute, wait a minute..." Gao Qinghai was chasing Zhan Mengyan closely, shouting from behind her, gasping for breath.

Zhan Mengyan heard the shouting and slowed down, and Gao Qinghai caught up with her.

"Zhan Mengyan, you run really fast even though you are small. The teacher is old and can't catch up with you. Why did you run away without waiting for the teacher to finish speaking?" Gao Qinghai said breathlessly.

"Teacher Gao, I feel sad and I want to get rid of this sad feeling." Zhan Mengyan said with tears on her face.

"Teacher Gao has a class the day after tomorrow and can't see you off. Besides, she doesn't like to attend farewells. Teacher Gao knows that you are moving, so she went to the county town to buy you a Hero brand fountain pen. The pen is emerald green, a color as fresh and vibrant as you. She hopes that you will always be as vibrant as the color of this pen..." Teacher Gao choked up as she spoke.

The teacher and the student said goodbye reluctantly...

"Mom, I'm back. Sister Mengyan, why are you unhappy today?" Zhan Zixun walked in with his schoolbag on his back and said, breaking Zhan Mengyan's painful memories.

"Brother Zixun, I want to return the emerald green nib fountain pen that Teacher Gao Qinghai gave me." Zhan Mengyan said.

"You are just a kid, how can you use such a good pen? I will return the pen to you when you pass the entrance exam to a key high school. You can lend it to Brother Zixun for two years first." Zhan Zixun replied.