you were there

In mid-August, the summer is in full swing.

Xia Mozhen got off the back seat of the electric car, and was about to enter the high school that she didn't dream of.

Xia Feng slid through his broken hair, mixed with the fragrance of green grass, it entered his nostrils.

There was no smile on the handsome and flowery face, and the corners of the mouth were raised slightly, as if to cover up the uneasiness about entering a strange world.

The end of the deep eyes seemed like a pool of lake water, the calmness in the eyes, but the turmoil in the depths.Now, is there anyone who can see through his eyes and see the purest look in his heart.

His grades in the senior high school entrance examination were not satisfactory, and this middle school can be said to be the worst school in the city.Even so, his mother still said to his back: "Come on for the exam!"

Although it is not a key high school, there is also a formal "placement test".

Xia Mozhen was wearing a milky white half-sleeved T-shirt and a pair of khaki trousers, walking alone in a narrow alley.He didn't have a backpack, but he was holding a document bag in his hand, which contained only a few ballpoint pens.

Suddenly, Xia Moqiao slowed down, and the smile on the corner of his mouth curved back into a cold arc.Walking in front of him is his best friend for nine years and his first love for two and a half years.Just a few months before the senior high school entrance examination, they had a quarrel.Even Xia Moqiao herself forgot the reason for the quarrel.However, the moment he saw him, the suppressed emotion in his heart seemed to surge again.

The man was wearing an army green T-shirt and black shorts that Xia Moqiao was familiar with. Even though he didn't see his handsome face clearly, he was sure that he was the one who made him fall in love.This person changed his sexual orientation and changed his destiny.

However, it is destined to be a person, but they have not met yet.

Xia Mozhen's expression changed, his eyes drooped, but those eyelids still adorned his face with a delicate brilliance.He had some pleasant surprises, but also a little sadness. People who were about to forget were reunited like this.It's just that he didn't have the courage to admit it.

The two entered the school one after the other.

Xia Mozhen found the class she was taking the exam on the notice board, and slowly walked into the small brick-red teaching building.

The classroom is not big, but the log wall surrounds it with a simple atmosphere.

Sitting on the podium was a teacher in a sea blue dress and black-rimmed glasses.There was no smile on her face, and the acne marks on her face made her look much older.Xia Mozhen did not pick up the black pen on the table, but signed his name with his ballpoint pen, and sat down at a seat by the window.

It took him significantly longer to sign than other students. He is used to writing stroke by stroke, whether it is with pencil, fountain pen, or ballpoint pen.

Words are like people, appearance is like soul.

If you get to know someone in the class from that sign-in sheet, it's hard not to think of him as a girl.It's just that in that list, only he signed his name with an ink blue ballpoint pen.In addition to the handsome font, the color is also particularly eye-catching.

The class is very quiet, except for the low hum of the four old electric fans, the crisp chirping of cicadas outside the window lingers in my ears.

The students around just lowered their heads, there were no girls looking around for handsome guys, and no boys looking left and right for pretty girls.Only Xia Mozhen turned his head slowly, looking for the familiar figure with his peripheral vision.A few rows back, he found him—

His head is lower than other classmates.Before Xia Mozhen could take a closer look, she felt a chill coming from her surroundings.He raised his head slowly, and the teacher sitting on the podium was staring at him with a frown.He turned his head hastily and focused his gaze on the two ballpoint pens on the table.

At this moment, a tall figure stopped beside him.Xia Moqiao raised her head slightly and looked at this person.

Dark blue denim trousers tightly wrapped a pair of straight and long legs, and the broad shoulders supported the dark black sleeveless vest.The muscles on the arms are not as good as those of the fitness instructors, but the beautiful lines give people a sense of security.

Before Xia Mozhen had time to look at his appearance, the teacher on the podium began to distribute the test papers.

It was a comprehensive test paper, involving all subjects learned in junior high school.Many people just muddle along in the subjects of the junior high school exams, and don't pay much attention to them.Xia Mozhen has a preference for those subjects that are not valued, and knowledge that is unfamiliar to others can be said to be common sense in his eyes.He quickly finished answering the test paper, including the last "micro-writing".Perhaps, in this not-so-excellent school, he is one of the best.

The boys around Xia Mozhen didn't have "good grades" and kept scratching their heads.

Xia Moqiao turned her head to the side and saw a handsome face.

Although the eyes have single eyelids, they are still piercing.The bridge of the nose is handsome, the lips are red and the teeth are white.The tip of the beauty is still some distance away from the two thick eyebrows, and the clean and comfortable cropped hair exudes the breath of youth and hormones.

Unlike Xia Mozhen, what he exudes is the youthful vitality of a boy.The pair of pupils under Xia Moqiao's eyelids seemed to be connected to a deep sea, deep and mysterious.Because of the deep eyes, his face has a feminine and feminine beauty.It's just that this temperament is also concealed under his masculine hairstyle.It's like hiding the secret of his deep love for a boy in the bottom of his heart that no one knows.

Xia Mozhen deliberately moved the paper to the right by a few centimeters, and the boy also calmed down, quickly scanned the answers on Xia Mozhen's paper with sharp eyes, and copied them on his own examination paper.I don't know why, but at this moment, I have always been arrogant, and now I feel warm-hearted, and start to help this stranger who has always been plain.

In the end, the boy found that all the math questions on Xia Moqiao's paper were empty, and the two choices and one major question were all blank.He was a little puzzled. When he was about to take a look at the micro-composition he wrote, the teacher on the podium coughed a few times.He nodded hastily, staring blankly at the title - "The Most Beautiful Happiness", hoping to find some inspiration from his blank brain.

In the space of more than ten lines, Xia Moqiao only wrote two lines:

The crush knows that I love him deeply

A distant dream becomes a reality

……

When the bell rang again, the teacher took back the test paper himself.The boy next to Xia Mozhen smiled at him, showing his white canine teeth, and thanked him.That slightly playful expression did not match his masculine and mature appearance.

Xia Mozhen didn't give any enthusiastic response, just smiled, and hurriedly put away the ballpoint pen on the table, as if eager to leave this world.

For the whole week after the exam, Xia Moqiao was restless.He had some longing to be in the same class as him, so that he could pick up the worry-free memories of elementary school; he was also a little worried about what kind of mentality he should use to face him when they met again in the same class.

Entanglement, contradiction, struggle...these are the characteristics of Libra people.

Perhaps, only by entrusting the future to God can the hesitant self be freed from self-deception.

……

A week later, the placement results came out.Xia Mozhen still dressed in the same way, looking for her name on the notice board nervously.

Shi Rui——Grade [-] and Class [-].

The first thing he found was his name, and then he looked for his name in the list of that class.I went down several times and couldn't find it.

Meeting is destined, but getting together is not divided.

Finally, he found his name in the list of the third class.Xia Mozhen didn't know whether it was gratification or regret, but the true emotion was hidden deep in those deep eyes.

Sitting on the podium was the female teacher who invigilated him that day, and there was still a sign-in sheet on her desk.Xia Moqiao still found the ballpoint pen from the backpack, and signed his name with the same font.

The female teacher didn't pay attention to this trivial matter, and still watched the more than ten people under the podium, but this small action left a very deep impression on her.

Xia Mozhen still walked to the window and sat down. When the classmates around him were playing with their mobile phones, he also lowered his head.

Soon, everyone will arrive.

The female teacher closed the door, picked up the chalk on the desk, and wrote her name on the blackboard—Zheng Qiaomei.A row of numbers next to it is her mobile phone number.

Her font is powerful and elegant, which doesn't match her appearance.

"This is my name and my mobile phone number. There is a strict requirement in the class I manage - no mobile phones are allowed."

Hearing this, the students in the class put their mobile phones in their pockets or school bags one after another.

"The mobile phone can be carried, but it needs to be handed in. If I find it, I will confiscate it and exchange it with the test rank. If you improve by 130, you can take it away." She added with a serious face, "But there are only [-] students in this grade. "

Xia Mozhen has no habit of playing with mobile phones. Although her mother bought him a smart phone after the high school entrance examination, he only uses it to make calls and listen to music. He doesn't know how to use other functions.

"Let's do the general cleaning first, and we will queue up after the cleaning is over."

After the division of labor, Xia Moqiao's name was never called.

"Students who have not been assigned a job, follow me to the office to do hygiene."

Xia Moqiao stood up and followed behind her.

Before he was ready to go downstairs, a tall figure stopped in front of him and the teacher.

"Sorry teacher, I'm late!"

Xia Moqiao raised her head and looked at the boy who was late.

His figure is very familiar, as well as that childish little face and handsome and tall figure.

Zheng Qiaomei found the name that did not sign in on the sign-in form.

"Is it Qiuchen?"

"Hello teacher!"

Unknowingly, a faint disgust appeared on Xia Moqiao's face.

"Follow me to the office."

Qiu Chen walked by his side and walked to the office on the first floor together.

When he was going down the stairs, he whispered to Xia Moqiao - thank you that day!

The curvature of Xia Moqiao's mouth did not change at all.

Zheng Qiaomei opened the door of the office, and there were eight desks inside, all facing the wall, and the space in the aisle looked huge.There are several unopened cardboard boxes under the desk, but it seems that there are only five teachers working here.

"What do you mean by being late on the first day?" Zheng Qiaomei sat on the office chair and questioned Qiuchen.

"I'm sorry teacher, I overslept this morning." Qiu Chen replied with a shy face, without any sense of nervousness or self-blame.

Xia Mozhen stood beside Qiuchen silently with his head bowed. Because he lowered his head, he looked much shorter than Qiuchen.It seems that it was not Qiuchen who made the mistake, but Xia Moqiao.

"You can oversleep the second time you come to school, it seems that you are not interested in going to school at all."

Qiuchen didn't answer, but still smiled.In fact, he didn't want to go at all.

"This is the first time you've made a mistake, so I won't pursue it. Also, next time, don't smile when you're so serious."

Zheng Qiaomei picked up the sign-in form on the table and found the name signed with a ball pen at a glance.

"Your name is Xia Mo..."

Xia Moqiao raised his head, he was already mentally prepared.After all, very few people know this word, and even his junior high school teacher only knew it after consulting a dictionary.

Unexpectedly, Qiuchen strode forward, stood beside Zheng Qiaomei, and saw the name signed with a ball pen.

"Xia Moqiao, pronounce it 'hong', four times!" Qiu Chen reminded in a low voice.

Xia Moqiao looked at him, which surprised him very much.I didn't expect this person to know this word!

Zheng Qiaomei twisted her mouth and said, "You two wiped the glass in the office together."

After that, her phone rang.

She took out the basin and dishcloth from the cabinet, sat on the chair and talked on the phone in a Jinghai accent.

Xia Moqiao put two rags on the table aside, ready to go out to fetch water.

The two did not speak. For Xia Moqiao, when two people get along, they usually wait for the other to speak first.Unless, it is a very familiar buddy.However, this time he spoke first.

"You know my name?"

"I happened to see this word when I was looking through the dictionary, so I remembered it by such a coincidence."

"What a coincidence..." Xia Moqiao echoed.Perhaps this is not a coincidence, but a kind of fate, just like he and Shi Rui reunited.

Xia Moqiao turned on the faucet and took the water in a basin.Before half of the water was received, Qiuchen was about to snatch his basin.

"You are not as strong as I am, I'd better hold it."

"Although I'm not as tall or strong as you, I can still hold a basin of water."

Qiuchen looked at him carefully, and it was true that he was not as tall as himself.He knows his net height is 185CM.Xia Moqiao stood up straight almost up to his nose, probably around 180.

Seeing that the water was almost drained, Qiuchen turned on the faucet and threw two rags into it.

Xia Moqiao thought he was deliberately adding gravity to the basin, and felt a little unhappy.Who would have thought that Qiuchen grabbed the basin and said, "I'll take it and rest assured!"

Qiuchen was carrying a basin, and he arrived at the door of the office soon with his long legs.Xia Mozhen was going to call "report" in a regular manner, but Qiuchen knocked the door open with her knee, and walked straight to the window sill.

Xia Mozhen frowned slightly, and followed her in.Fortunately, Zheng Qiaomei was still on the phone, otherwise he would definitely be scolded again.

Xia Mozhen unscrewed her rag, but did not help Qiuchen.He wanted to ask Zheng Qiaomei for a newspaper, but she talked so eloquently that she completely forgot the existence of these two people.

Qiuchen went straight to Zheng Qiaomei and asked her if she had any waste newspapers.

Zheng Qiaomei opened the cabinet, found a dozen waste newspapers inside, put them on the desk, and started talking again.

He took the wet rag in Xia Moqiao's hand, and strode up to the window sill.

"Just change the rag and pass the newspaper for me!"

Before Xia Mozhen could react, the rag in her hand was gone, and Qiu Chen was already busy.

Open the window in the autumn morning, and a heat wave hits.In the autumn morning, I hurried to the window and closed the window to prevent the summer heat from eroding this cool country.

Xia Mozhen looked at him from inside, watching him gradually sweating, and the sweat gradually flowed from his forehead to his neck, and then flowed to the dark place of the black half-sleeved T-shirt.

Xia Mozhen looked at him, and the withered love seemed to bloom again.

However, his eyes are avoiding.Do you like it or hate it?He can't say it himself...

Before long, the glass became much brighter.

Qiuchen wiped the sweat off her forehead with her elbow, hurried in and got off the window sill.

“Much cleaner!”

Xia Moqiao took the rag in his hand and washed it in the clear water.Soon, the clear water gradually turned black.

"I'll wipe it inside!" Xia Moqiao took Qiu Chen's newly folded newspaper and carefully wiped the stains on the glass.

Xia Moqiao didn't jump on the window sill, because his height could easily wipe the glass below.

When he finished wiping the two panes of glass below, Qiuchen jumped onto the window sill again.

"I can get it up there."

Xia Mozhen took a step back.Indeed, it did take him on tiptoe to wipe the uppermost part of the glass.

I don’t know if the teachers in the previous wave liked to splash water on the windows. The glass inside was dirtier than the glass outside, and soon the clean rag changed color again.

Xia Mozhen twisted the cleaned rag, raised her hand, and waited silently for him to take it by himself.

Qiuchen was too focused, Xia Moqiao raised his hand for a while, but he didn't see it.

When he saw it, the glass had been wiped clean.Only now did he pay attention to Xia Moqiao who handed him the rag.

Why don't you call me and hold it up all the time, so cherish words like gold?

Zheng Qiaomei looked at the "tacit understanding" of the two, feeling a little indescribable joy in her heart.

Qiuchen took the rag, wiped it symbolically twice, and jumped off the window sill.

"Teacher, can you see it?"

Zheng Qiaomei was still talking on the phone and made an OK gesture.

Xia Mozhen smiled slightly, grabbed the rag from Qiuchen's hand, and went straight to scouring it.

Qiuchen wiped the shoe prints on the window sill with a few newspapers, threw them into the trash can beside her, and couldn't wait to find this interesting person.

"report!"

"Enter!"

Qiu Chen hurried over and opened the door, Xia Moqiao came in with a basin of water and put it on the window sill.

This man is so old-fashioned, he just came in with such a heavy water, he insisted on following the rules.

"Go back to the classroom first and tell your classmates that I have an announcement to make."

……

"The cleaning was done well today."

Zheng Qiaomei picked up the white paper on the table and began to distribute it one by one.

"This piece of paper is not for you to record what I said, but to tell you one thing. When you walk into this campus, you have a new start. Don't ask about your grades and past, here you have equal opportunity to work hard.”

Zheng Qiaomei wrote on the blackboard the time and things needed for the start of school, as well as an assignment - write an essay about the start of school.

"I am your political teacher, responsible for the teaching of these four classes. Regardless of whether you study liberal arts or science in the future, you must meet my requirements during this year, and I will treat you equally."

"Everyone below go to the corridor and stand according to height."

Soon, the narrow corridor was full of people.

Some students have self-knowledge and stand at the front of the team; some students, in order to satisfy the so-called vanity, keep changing back even though they are not high.

The most interesting one was Qiu Chen, who stood at the end of the boys' line.Because no one here will be taller than him!

Xia Mozhen looked at the students around her, and found that she also needed to stand back.Before he knew it, he walked in front of Qiuchen.However, in order to stand in front of him, Xia Mozhen deliberately jumped in front of a classmate in front of Qiu Chen.

Qiu Chen, who was a little excited, was disappointed again.

Zheng Qiaomei came out, and the noisy corridor suddenly became quiet.

Zheng Qiaomei walked between the boys' team and the girls' team, and some of them switched positions.When she walked to Xia Mozhen, she immediately transferred the boy behind him to the front of Xia Mozhen.In this way, Xia Moqiao stood in front of Qiuchen again.

Zheng Qiaomei went back to the door of the classroom, a boy and a girl went in like this.People disappeared bit by bit, but until the end, only Xia Moqiao and Qiuchen were left outside the classroom.

"There is one more boy in our class, so you two need to sit next to each other. If you two chat in class, I will separate you two."

In fact, she was reluctant.

Hearing this, Xia Moqiao felt a little awkward. She was very reluctant to sit with him at first, and she was even more upset when she heard such a threat.

But Qiuchen was full of joy, but she still pretended to be nonchalant, and quietly said to Xia Moqiao, "You ruined my love affair."

Xia Moqiao walked into the classroom, and the students sat neatly on their seats.He scanned the class, except for a few unaccustomed girls who still lowered their heads, the others stared at him, regardless of gender, but in the eyes of a few girls, he saw a little nympho look.

He went straight to the last seat by the window, sat down, and looked out the window.

Qiuchen sat next to Xia Moqiao and began to answer his doubts.

"Why didn't you write the math questions in the exam that day?"

Xia Moqiao Anran's expression was mixed with a little nervousness and surprise.

I didn't expect him to be very observant.

"Because it won't."

"Why do you sign with a ballpoint pen?"

"I can only write with a ballpoint pen!"

Zheng Qiaomei closed the door and opened the roster.

"Xia Moqiao!"

"To!"

Xia Moqiao stood up, supporting his body with his straight long legs.

"You are the monitor."

Xia Mozhen was a little surprised, after all, he had never been involved in affairs in the previous class, and he had always been the most silent person in the class.But in front of so many people, I was too embarrassed to refuse, so I reluctantly agreed.

"Qiuchen!" Qiuchen hadn't had time to get up yet, "You are the sports committee member and the representative of the political department!"

"Teacher!" Qiu Chen stood up, "I'm not interested in politics at all, can I change?"

Zheng Qiaomei rolled her eyes and said, "My favorite thing is to make people do jobs I don't like!"

Zheng Qiaomei ignored his refusal and continued to announce this "personnel order".

When she announced the end, a few students knocked on the door, saying that they helped bring the books over.

Zheng Qiaomei was very pleasantly surprised and grateful, and hurriedly asked the boys in the first few rows to move the books into the classroom and began to distribute them.And Zheng Qiaomei copied the schedule on the blackboard.Although there are no horizontal lines, her words are vigorous and powerful.

Xia Moqiao took out her own notebook, and prepared to copy it in the notebook.

"Do you have an extra pen, lend me one!"

Xia Mozhen didn't look at him, and put an extra pen on his desk in disdain.

Qiuchen didn't say thank you either, it seemed that it was an exchange between old friends and there was no need for such extra etiquette.

Xia Mozhen glanced at him from the corner of his eye, and found that he had just recorded it on the meaningful white paper that Zheng Qiaomei sent.

However, he got tired of copying just one line, and put the pen back on Xia Moqiao's desk.

It wasn't until Zheng Qiaomei put down the chalk that he raised his phone, took a photo with a "click", and took the class schedule and Zheng Qiaomei together.

The students in the front row turned their heads one after another, and Zheng Qiaomei coughed dryly, and said seriously: "The students who violated my portrait rights will stand up next week for self-study."

The students in the class suddenly burst into joy, and the dull atmosphere suddenly broke, blending with the hot summer outside the window.

Qiuchen sighed with a smile, but Xia Moqiao was spoiled, with a childlike smile blooming in her deep eyes, and the upward curve of the corners of her mouth was obviously much higher than before.

Such a smile, but let Qiu Chen engraved in his heart.

No matter how great the achievements are, it is not as good as his smile.