To my dear Mr. Meng

When I was 16 years old, I tasted the tragic taste of broken love.

The reason why I say tragic is because I can’t cry in the arms of my best friend like a girl to comfort my hurt. The elder brother who works downstairs can block the little girl he likes in the alley and make a sweet threat. I have If you have no guts, you can only look at the ocean and sigh.Every time Mr. Meng finishes talking to me, I secretly swear that I will break up with him and treat him as a dog; however, when he calls my name next time, my conditioned reflex starts to sit on pins and needles; shout again, I immediately flicked my tongue and ran away.

Alas, Sven sweeps the floor, Sven sweeps the floor.

Breaking up a relationship sounds like half the sky has collapsed, but the real sadness is only a few hours.Because the final of the ball game was about to be played, and the guillotine for the final exam was hanging over our heads, we did not dare to show our pride under the eyes of the head teacher every day, and asked for leave tremblingly.

Ever since Zhan Xinlei told about Gao Ting, I kept it in my heart.Indeed, if you are not interested in others, you should always return the things. This is the same principle as in ancient times when you refuse a marriage and withdraw the betrothal gift first.Mr. Meng was completely kept in the dark. Of course, this gap must be filled by me, a mandarin duck-fighting bastard.

The box of chocolates that Gao Ting gave me, I went to several places but didn’t find the same one. When Guan Ting’s father went to Russia some time ago, he gave me a bunch of candy and biscuits. I was shabby, so I packed a big bag and went to school.

The cheerleaders were called to hold a small meeting during the big class break. I went downstairs and found Class [-] and [-] next to the stairs. Stand by the door.This season, the classroom has been baked into a steamer full of oil. After class, everyone goes outside to cool off. There are not many people in the classroom except for a few sleeping.The two girls sitting by the door kept staring at me, and I asked, "Student, is Gao Ting in your class?"

The two girls looked at each other in surprise.One of the short-haired ones said, "Are you the sophomore in charge of the school team..."

As soon as I heard it, I was happy. How dare I manage the school team. The school team is all my uncle.Unexpectedly, someone knew me, the mother of the team, and couldn't help but look at her twice, but didn't remember seeing her: "You are..."

"I help write articles for the school newspaper, and I often see you at football games."

In fact, I have no impression at all, but I still pretend to be stunned.She smiled and said, "Are you looking for Gao Ting?"

"Correct."

She and her tablemate looked at each other again and secretly laughed.I thought to myself that the girls' eye contact was amazing, and I saw her turn her head to the back of the classroom and call: "Gao Ting, someone is looking for you!"

At the back of the classroom near the window, a girl in school uniform raised her head and then slowly stood up.

On the way down the stairs, I thought about what Gao Ting would look like. I imagined that she was about the same height and thin as Zhan Xinlei, but not as sweet and pleasant as her, with a shy personality.

No one would want their rival in love to be a fairy, but it's best not to be too unrestrained, otherwise it seems that even the person being pursued will lose their price.

But after I saw Gao Ting clearly, a little disappointment came to my mind first.

After careful identification, it can still be seen that her hair should have been short at the ear, but now it has grown a lot and has not been taken care of. On one side of the collarbone, there is a proud posture of fluttering wings.Compared with her proud hair, the face in the middle is almost as humble as dust.You can’t tell where it’s not good, they’re all well-behaved, the eyes won’t steal the nose’s limelight, and the teeth won’t let the mouth hide, but the overall look is such that people don’t take a second look. desire.

She was obviously timid, and stopped at a distance: "Are you looking for me?"

I took a step outside, beckoning her to come out, trying not to look like a senior bully looking for faults and collecting protection money.Gao Ting hesitated for a while, then followed me to the corner of the stairs where there was no one there.It was only then that I realized that she was not tall, because she was a bit fat, which gave people the illusion of a big man with a strong back and a waist.She put her hands behind her back, as if facing a formidable enemy, which made me swallow nervously too.

"Hey, what, Meng Qiansheng asked me to give it to you." I handed over the bag, "The one you gave before was divided by everyone, I'm really sorry."

Her eyes widened, as if she didn't understand what I said.After a moment of unembarrassed stalemate, a smear of blood red claws protruded from the depths of her flying hair, and then blatantly invaded the entire cheek.

Occasionally, a high school student passed by, and they all peeped here with ambiguous eyes.Enduring the contagion of embarrassment, I raised my hand and signaled her to take it.She took a step back in a panic, hid her hands firmly behind her back, and shook her head repeatedly: "No, it's okay, I don't want it anymore."

"Take it, I won't be able to do business if you don't accept me."

She reluctantly took it, her eyebrows drooping, as if what I handed over was a bag of arsenic.She bit her lip pitifully, and I still had a conscience and felt sorry for it. After hesitating for a while, I took out the piece of paper from my school uniform pocket: "He gave you this too."

She was taken aback, and seemed to want to open it right away, but she felt embarrassed because I was in front of her, and after a bit of coyness, she finally mumbled: "I'm going back to the classroom."

I nodded and she ran away in a blink of an eye.

Of course I wrote that note. Anyway, Mr. Meng and I have had the same copybook since childhood, so it is easy to fool outsiders.I also can't explain why I need to write a note, and the note still has nonsense such as "Thank you for liking, but I still focus on my studies at the moment".

Thinking of this level, I suddenly remembered that Zhan Xinlei thought that Meng Qiansheng had a "girlfriend from another school", so I froze in place.

There is a saying, stupid people should not do bad things.

There is no hope of maintaining Mr. Meng's reputation, so I can only recite a few words silently, "Men are not bad, women are not loving" to comfort me.

It was clear that the finals would be held in the No. [-] Middle School, but the big brother said that something went wrong there, and it still fell on our school in the end.As soon as the news spread, all the students rejoiced, the teachers held back their anger at the absent-minded kids, and there were broken chalk ends all over the floor under the blackboard, which made me make two extra trips to the material room this week.

The head teacher also repeatedly persuaded me to let me take the position of the study committee member as soon as possible. He has never seen a study committee member take the lead and not study.

I feel wronged.It is clear that Fang Tian, ​​who is diligent and conscientious, has become the head teacher's new favorite, but he wants to charge me with such treason and immorality as "not fond of studying".

When I got down to the crowded basketball court, the two sides were already killing each other, and the screams were so loud that my eardrums were about to burst.The big brother blushed with excitement, his neck was thick, and the veins on his forehead were bulging. He didn't have time to talk to me at all. He turned around and seemed to have nothing to do with me. I struggled to squeeze out of the boiler-like crowd and strolled to the basketball court. Beside the flower table more than ten meters away, I found a shriveled schoolbag hanging alone on the hot tiled table.

Before I could laugh at a fool who spilled water all over my schoolbag, I turned it over and found that it seemed to be my schoolbag.A stack of books and homework books were neatly stacked next to it, as if for special proof, the homework book with the name of a big fool like me was still placed on top of the market.

Back on the basketball court, Big Brother was yelling "Meng Qiansheng" furiously on the sidelines, as if he was pissed off by Mr. Meng on the court.The sun dazzled my eyes, and I was a little bored, so I found a chair in the awning and sat down, leaning against the table and dozing off.

Sleeping in a place full of people is amazing.The humming of cicadas without any moisture and the overwhelming heat wave locked people in the scorching heat and the yelling of the sky, spit it out in one breath and returned it to the nasal cavity, the sweaty T-shirt stuck to the spine, half asleep and half awake In the meantime, a bean-sized sweat finally gathered enough strength to jump down from the vest and slip into the folds of the clothes on the back waist, which was a rare bit of moisture under the sun.Human senses are magnified to the point of being almost distorted in the intense heat, just like observing a grain of sand sunburned by a microscope.

Voices rang in my ears, and I didn't know if I was awake or asleep.I didn't really open my eyes until something cold was stuck to my face.

"You still slept soundly!"

Xu Miao took the frozen mineral water away from my face: "Good brother, let me sit for a while."

I stretched and stood up to make room for him.After waking up, I finally remembered: "What happened to my schoolbag?"

Xu Miao spit out a mouthful of water: "It's really none of my business!"

He said that it was Tang Yu who didn't tell him that the lid was not closed when he handed him the water. When he lifted the bottle cap, a bottle of water just poured all over my schoolbag.Xu Miao kept trying to be cute: "Brother Jun, Brother Jun, it's really Tang Yu who is so stupid! Meng Qiansheng and I cleaned up for you, the books were not wet, you see the sun is so big, you must be sure when school is over Dry."

I slapped him and looked at Big Brother and Mr. Meng: "What's wrong with Meng Qiansheng today?"

"I just said he was sleepwalking." Xu Miao frowned a little, "I lost the chain a few times, I don't know what he was thinking."

As soon as the words were finished, the big brother probably had enough scolding, Mr. Meng walked to us and leaned against a table to rest.I took a bottle of mineral water from the cardboard box under my feet and handed it to him: "Tired?"

He wiped his sweat with his hands and shook his head.

"I'll treat you to dinner after school tonight. Is that good enough?"

Before I finished speaking, Xu Miao yelled behind me: "What are you whispering again, tell me too."

"Xu Miao!"

Feng Yanling beckoned in the distance, Xu Miao jumped up and down without saying a word.

"When it's over, don't rush to leave, wait for me."

I nodded hastily.

Big Brother's whistle sounded, and the second half began immediately.The surroundings of the basketball court became messy again, but it didn't affect my mood at all.

Why did the word "wait for me" sound so nice when it came out of Meng Qiansheng's mouth?

I smirked twice at the bright sun.

It's a pity that Mr. Meng was too serious just now, so he didn't laugh.

The numbers on the scoreboard were completely blocked by people, and I couldn't even see the people on the field standing on the outside, but I can guess that the people screaming all the time are from our school.I huddled in the shade and guarded my schoolbag and yawned. Before I finished typing the last one, Teacher Gao walked up to me fiercely.

"He Yujun! Hurry up and look for your help. The cheerleaders will be on the field soon after the game over there. Guan Ting and Zhan Xinlei have gone somewhere! Tell them to gather under the rostrum, and they are the only ones left." Yes, really..."

I yawned lazily and walked towards the teaching building.The girl Guan Ting said she wanted a place to sleep after the opening dance, so she probably didn't dare to go back to the classroom and get stared at by the class teacher, maybe she was in the dance studio.

The dance studio is on the fifth floor, which really tortured my old bones.As soon as they reached the third floor, there was a sudden muffled sound overhead, and someone screamed.

I rushed up in one breath, Guan Ting was lying on the stairs between the fourth and fifth floors, Zhan Xinlei immediately squatted down to help her.Guan Ting cried out in pain: "Don't, don't, don't help me..."

I grabbed it one step at a time: "Where did you fall?"

As soon as I finished asking, I saw her clutching her left knee, a stream of blood slowly flowing down her calf from under her palm.Zhan Xinlei was shocked: "You are bleeding!"

The tip of Guan Ting's nose was flushed, and tears welled up in his eyes: "It hurts me to death..."

At this time, I didn't have time to remind her to pay attention to her wording: "Can I go?"

Guan Ting looked up and stared, tears rolled out, and cursed with a sob in his mouth: "Go away!"

I took her hand away and looked, I guess it just knocked on the edge of the stairs, there was a big hole, probably needing stitches.I said, "Go to the infirmary first, maybe go to the hospital." Seeing that she was still holding the cheerleading ball in the other hand, I said to Zhan Xinlei, "Go and tell Teacher Gao, hurry up." Substitution. Here I am."

Zhan Xinlei took Guan Ting's props and hurried downstairs.I thought it was a bit tricky, so I thought about it and said, "It's not easy for you to memorize it like this, so I'll carry you downstairs."

Guan Ting wiped his tears and asked, "Can you hug me?"

I really have no idea: "Try it, otherwise what else can I do?"

Guan Ting said yes, I grabbed her knees and picked her up, but she still didn't forget to cover her skirt tightly.It was the first time I hugged someone like this since I was born, I couldn't control my balance well, Guan Ting was so frightened that he immediately hugged me tightly, he didn't even bother crying out for pain.

"You're going to throw me!"

"No." She yelled on my right side, and my left ear hurt, "But ancestor, you can't sink any more."

Guan Ting still didn't forget to retort in a low voice while taking a breath: "I'm not fat!"

I couldn't see the way while holding Guan Ting, so I was very careful when I went downstairs.When I walked to the edge of the playground, I happened to meet the big brother coming this way in a hurry, Xu Miao and the others followed behind, and when they saw us, they immediately swarmed up.Guan Ting hurriedly asked me to put her down, she supported me and the golden rooster was already at the limit of independence, and it was impossible to move forward.When the eldest brother saw it, he immediately said to go to the hospital and picked up Guan Ting, and I followed him out of the school gate to call a taxi.

There was a traffic jam all the way to the hospital, but fortunately Guan Ting's injury stopped without much bleeding.There were so many people in the emergency department, there were registrations and queues, and the patients in the debridement operating room were screaming like pigs, and my scalp felt numb when I heard it.

The eldest brother asked Guan Ting to call home, and then sent her home in person, and asked me to go back to school by myself.I didn't bring that much money with me, so I had to take the bus staggeringly back.

I felt bored again in the car, and I was so hungry that my chest was pressed against my back. After getting off the car, I got into a noodle shop and ate a bowl of noodles.Back at the school, all the buses from other schools parked at the gate had left, and the playground was very quiet, except for scattered students cleaning up in the awning.

It was only then that I remembered that my schoolbag was still under the flower stand. When I went over to look, the flower stand was empty, and the book and bag were gone.I thought it was bad, and was about to ask someone in the shed when I suddenly heard someone calling me.

"He Yujun."

Mr. Meng came over from the rostrum with his school uniform and my schoolbag in his arms.I went up to meet him and said with a smile: "I was scared to death, I thought I lost the bag, thank you."

I took the bag from him and asked casually, "Have you eaten yet?"

"No."

I looked at the big clock at the school gate, it was already past seven: "Why haven't you eaten yet?"

"I'm waiting for you."

He was obviously a little upset, and I said, "Guan Ting fell, and I sent her to the hospital. She just came back. Didn't Teacher Gao tell you?"

"said."

"Actually, I should have told you before I left, but I was so anxious that I forgot, and I didn't expect you to wait for me all this time. I thought you were celebrating with Xu Miao and the others. Let me tell you that the hospital is crowded Seriously, Guan Ting got three stitches there, crying until Big Brother couldn't help it..."

"Can you say a few words about Guan Ting?"

I was stunned for a while, before I realized it, and I froze in place.

"What do you mean?"

Mr. Meng also stopped and didn't look at me. He pursed his lips and remained silent for a moment before saying, "It's not interesting."

I was immediately annoyed by him: "Meng Qiansheng, why are you so nervous? Are you in a bad mood and take it out on me?"

He finally couldn't help frowning: "Is it reasonable for you to let the pigeons go?"

"I didn't do it on purpose! You still have to be reasonable!"

"Forget it, I don't want to argue with you about those messy things. I'm going back."

Turn around and leave.

I stayed where I was, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt that he was speaking in a strange way, and the fire rushed up in my stomach, and my head was burning hot: Meng Qiansheng is in a bad mood, why should you take it out on me?

I caught up with him at the alley outside the school: "Meng Qiansheng, you bastard!"

He turned around abruptly and stared at me: "Who are you scolding?"

I retorted: "What's wrong with scolding you? Who do I have to deal with and you need to nod in agreement?"

Meng Qiansheng took a step forward: "You don't need my consent," he reached out and took out a stack of things from his school uniform pocket, and threw them on my chest, "You take care of these things yourself!"

The few pages were scattered lightly at the feet.I lowered my head and swept away, and a fine numb feeling shot up from the back of my neck to the back of my head, like pouring a basin of cold water full of ice scum all over my head.

My first reaction was to see Meng Qiansheng.

With a cold face, he was looking at me for a moment: "I don't know how to hide it. I forgot that the head teacher specially transferred you and Guan Ting at the same table last time? Are you still with Guan Ting?" If it’s not enough, you still have to provoke the freshman in high school, chasing after them to show courteousness in their class, if you think it’s interesting to be caught by the Political and Education Office, then just treat me as meddling in my own business.”

It is rare for him to speak so abruptly, he was probably really angry, and finally couldn't bear to turn his face.I was so scolded that I couldn't even finish a single word, and when my dull brain understood every sentence, the setting sun at the entrance of the alley was only half a scene of rusty red, which splashed on Mr. Meng's school uniform in his arms.

I leaned over and picked up the love letters.I put them in the interlayer for so long that I forgot their existence. The paper has been rubbed so soft and fuzzy, the creases are deeply embedded in the center, and even the characters in the middle are hard to see clearly.

Mr. Meng pursed his lips into a thin line, turned his head and did not speak.

I was a little annoyed at being scolded by him, but the secret joy in my heart was not only hard to erase, but also had an intensified tendency to show my power on my face.I vaguely understood something, but I was still not sure, so I muttered, "Why are you so angry?"

"I'm not angry," Mr. Meng said.

I said, "The dog is angry."

He quickly gouged me out: "Boring."

I praised Gao Ting's love letter: "Have you read this love letter?"

He acquiesced.

"You peek into privacy."

He imitated my previous tone and said back: "I didn't mean it."

I snorted, folded the love letter and put it in the pocket of the school uniform, and caught his gaze: "Who am I dating, why do you care so much, you like me."

He turned his head sideways, looked away from me, and said softly, "Who likes you."

A gust of twilight leaped over the rough concrete wall of the alley, right at the side of the face, rippling and dissolving into a thin golden mist, and finally condensed on that eyelash.Half of the face facing me was obscured by the backlight, and the lines of the outline approached the bright vermilion, almost melting away in the afterglow that seemed overwhelming.

That was simply the most beautiful arc I've ever seen.

I was so fascinated by this turning head, I forgot everything for a moment, and suddenly grabbed his arm and held it tightly.

"But I like you."

He looked over in surprise.

I was afraid that he would not believe me, so I hurriedly added a sentence.

"Meng Qiansheng, I really like you."