no longer ordinary friends

Zhou Zhicheng has been a good girl praised by her neighbors since she was a child. She looks good, studies well, is obedient and filial.

The rebellious period of most rural children in small towns is in junior high school, but she didn’t. She calmly looked at the classmates who grew up with her, dyed colorful perms and turkey heads, and took pictures to keep her head up 45 degrees of sadness , tears fell from eyes covered by slanted bangs.

And she was still the good girl in school uniform and high ponytail, with excellent grades, and she was admitted to No. [-] Middle School in the city from a remote town with a high score in the high school entrance examination.

At this time, her sensitive and rebellious period was long overdue.

In the first year of military training, the new classmates chatted together. Most of them came from key public junior high schools or private colleges in the urban area, and they knew each other. Zhou Zhicheng, who came from a small town, was like a lonely intruder. 600 people were admitted, and only she and Jiang Li were admitted to their county middle school this year.

"You can pass the entrance examination from such a poor junior high school, so you must work very hard, right? You must study at two or three o'clock in the morning at night." A classmate said to her, "Almost half of our class passed the entrance examination. Not very hard."

Zhou Zhicheng thought blankly, no, she didn't work so hard.

"You grew up with your grandparents? Then you are a left-behind child. Then you are really sensible and simple. Your parents don't care about you, and you can learn independently. It's amazing."

Zhou Zhicheng was even more at a loss, no, her parents didn't ignore her.

"I heard that your county is very backward. Then you live in school, and the food in the cafeteria is not good. The countryside is very patriarchal. I also heard that girls will drop out of school early and get married."

Zhou Zhicheng didn't know what to say.

Her sensitive adolescent girl's self-esteem made her unacceptable, and everyone felt pity for her inexplicably and sympathized with her in the name of envy.

She used to think that she was happy. Although she was a left-behind child, her grandparents loved her very much, and her parents loved her very much. After entering high school, she suddenly became a poor person in the eyes of the people in the city.

Zhou Zhicheng also quickly felt the gap in educational resources between the county and the urban area.In the first monthly exam, she was no longer as far ahead as before, but instead became the lower grade.

There was a parent-teacher meeting after the monthly exam. She considered that her grandpa and grandma were old and in poor health, so there was no need to take the bus for an hour and then transfer to the city bus, just to see her such poor grades.

But she didn't expect that she was the only student in the whole class whose parents didn't come.

"Why doesn't your family care about you?"

"It seems that the parents over there are not very interested in studying."

"Zhicheng, your teaching level in junior high school is relatively backward. You don't have the conditions to do chemistry experiments and physics experiments, and you read few history books, so your grades in these subjects are relatively poor, but it doesn't matter. Let's calm down and let's come again next time." The head teacher tried to enlighten her. .

Even her mother at the same table looked at her with pitiful eyes: "This child is too sensible, and her family members are really irresponsible, and no one came to the parent meeting." Then she scolded her at the same table, "Look You girl, I have been studying with you, driving you every day, and you are worse than Chengcheng in the exam, her mother is uneducated, so it is not surprising that she took the exam, but your mother is a college student."

Zhou Zhicheng knew that they might not have malicious intentions, but these words just made her feel uncomfortable.

She couldn't help but blame herself for being too sensitive.

When she returned to the town for vacation, the neighbors in the neighborhood knew that she had not done well in the first middle school.

"If the golden phoenix can't fly out of the mountain valley, Cai Mei will not be proud."

"I've said it a long time ago. Girls are precocious, and they are only good at elementary school and junior high school. High school girls can't keep up. Chengcheng's brother has already passed the exam in Beicheng. It's still her son who is good and capable."

"It's nothing. If she doesn't know how to study, she should get married early. The girl belongs to someone else's family. It's useless to read so many books. It's just that Lao Zhou is so stupid that he hurts his granddaughter like an eyeball."

Zhou Guohua usually treats people kindly and doesn't like to quarrel. When he heard this, he picked up a feather duster and drove them away. It was rare for him to really blush and cursed: "What nonsense? My granddaughter belongs to my family, what other people's family! Get out go out!"

When the man left, he even poohed: "To be honest, you can really be a grandpa only if you have a grandson. Fortunately, you have a grandson, otherwise you will lose all children and grandchildren."

Zhou Zhicheng was really sad. For the first time, she realized that in the eyes of some people, everything from her gender to her ability was sinful.

Jiang Li's parents were at odds with each other. His father was violent and alcoholic all year round. His mother only thought that his son could protect her and ignored her daughter. After she entered high school, although her grades were still very good, she often hung out with bad girls in the town. After the exam, Zhou Zhicheng couldn't help but join them.

They have one thing in common, left-behind children who are lonely, misunderstood, and want to gain attention. When they get together, they don’t do anything harmful. They just put on exaggerated makeup, wear sexy and mature clothes, dye colorful hair, and do dark things. Gothic manicure, occasionally skipping classes, wandering the streets with nothing to do, playing games in Internet cafes, or squatting at the door of Internet cafes, watching those thorny teenagers fight in groups.

Zhou Zhicheng's grades plummeted even more.

Until that summer vacation, her brother who graduated from college brought back a friend from the school next door, a young man with clean brows and a casual attitude.

When the two first met, no matter how calm she was, it was hard to hide the throbbing in her heart.

Jiang Xianghuai was different from the boys she had ever seen. He was handsome and bright, with clear outlines. When his dark pupils looked at her with a smile, it would give people the illusion that she was the only one in his eyes.

My brother said that he was from a wealthy family and had excellent grades, but he had nothing to do after graduation and came to the county to relax.

Zhou Zhicheng didn't know how to describe his character, he didn't seem to care about anything, no matter what she did or didn't do, he always had that attitude, separated from others by a layer of mist, and refused to approach other people, He lives with a thick mask that hides his true self.

She thought of Belikov who hid himself deep in the cover and escaped from reality.

At that time, Jiang Xianghuai heard her brother's words and came to arrest her. Seeing that she ignored him, he just smiled.

The Internet cafe was smoky, dimly lit, and the air was stuffy. She couldn't beat the wild monster boss in the computer, and she became more and more stuffy. She pursed her lips, and just wanted to die with the game.

"I'll help you."

Her cochlea tightened, Jiang Xianghuai walked behind her at some point, bent down, and whispered in her ear.

She turned her head subconsciously, and what she saw was his sharp and smooth jaw line, the prominent Adam's apple on the slender neck, and the clear and distinct collarbone. A little mole.

Her hand on the mouse accidentally touched the young man's slender and cool fingers, and his other hand went from behind her to the keyboard, and she was wrapped in his arms intimately.

Zhou Zhicheng quickly stood up, as if getting an electric shock, his heart was beating fast, he pushed Jiang Xianghuai away, and said coldly, "Go away, I'm going back."

After she finished speaking, she left without looking back, but her earlobe was hot and red uncontrollably, and she was even more annoyed, but the damned person behind him was still laughing and calling her.

She didn't hear a word of what she was shouting.

It was only later that she found out that he meant that her game account hadn't been logged out yet.He also didn't give a shit at all, and when she left, he didn't waste any time, using the time she bought online, playing the account she had paid for, and finishing her copy of the game.

And her brother praised him shamelessly: "Yes, good brother, as soon as you make a move, my non-mainstream sister will leave the Internet cafe by herself."