ninety-nine twelve

I didn't know until that day that Zhang Tianle was the last person in the class to celebrate his birthday before the college entrance examination.

The squad leader and the others quietly ordered the cake, and in the second half of the evening self-study, they sneaked out to take it back and hid it in the cabinet under the podium. The whole class, except Zhang Tianle, knew that there was going to be something to do at night, and they tacitly did not reveal any news.

10 minutes before the end of evening self-study, the students in the first row behind Zhang Tianle were responsible for chatting with him to divert attention. The two monitors were responsible for hiding under the podium to remove the paper shells and light candles.When I looked around, everyone in the class seemed to be sitting in their seats honestly, but in fact, there were quite a few people looking around and whispering to each other.

When the bell rang, the lights in the classroom went out at the same time as the bell rang, leaving only the light from under the podium. People in the back row stood up one after another and approached us. The male squad leader also came from behind the podium with a cake. Rising slowly, the leader began to sing the birthday song, everyone gradually echoed, and the last two lines almost became a chorus for the whole class.People from other classes who had packed their schoolbags early and waited for the bell to ring to leave school, passed by our classroom to see the darkness, and also poked their heads in to join in the fun.

Surrounded by the crowd, Zhang Tianle was at a loss, touched his neck in embarrassment, "What are you doing..."

The male squad leader brought the cake and asked him to blow out the candles. The female squad leader stood up in time and said disgustedly: "I didn't even make a wish and blow out any candles! But before making a wish and blowing out the candles, I would like to take this opportunity to say a few words. Today is Zhang Tianle's birthday. There is one more adult in our class, congratulations." Then he led everyone to applaud, "Today Zhang Tianle's birthday is the last birthday before the college entrance examination in our class. Don’t feel unbalanced, because the last bit of the class fee has to be spent before graduation, or it will be taken by the old class. Of course, I’m joking, it just happens that Zhang Tianle’s birthday falls on the last one, and this time the cake It has also been agreed by everyone, so after a while, everyone will share it equally and eat it. Everyone has a share. Remember to collect the garbage and throw it away tonight. Don’t keep it until tomorrow morning. Points will definitely be deducted if it is found in the sanitation inspection. In addition, I will say it again... ..."

"Oh, don't say it, I'm tired of raising my hands." The male squad leader bravely interrupted her, and immediately shut up after being stared at.

"This time should be the last time we can get together outside of class, of course we can get together in the future, but it may not be so together again, so everyone will celebrate our birthday together tonight, and then we must cherish this time, In the end, I will cherish the remaining few days every day, and from now on... I will go my separate ways, so I would like to say to everyone in advance to cheer for the exam and happy graduation!"

After the female squad leader finished speaking, the audience was silent for several seconds before someone said, "No, do you have to make the scene so sad?"

"Yes, that's right..." The students all agreed, and the atmosphere was adjusted a bit, "Oh, make a wish, Zhang Tianle, make a wish and blow out the candles, we want to eat cake!"

Zhang Tianle was booed by everyone and pushed to the cake, I stood in the crowd around him, he looked up, the male squad leader suddenly called me: "Haoyu, do you have anything to say?"

The people around heard the words and turned sideways on their own initiative, exposing me. Zhang Tianle's eyes found me, but there were so many people, I didn't know what to say, so I shook my head, and everyone continued to urge Zhang Tianle to make a wish. He clasped his hands in front of his forehead, and read out his wish unreasonably: "I wish everyone in class three can successfully enter the university of their choice." Then he blew out the eighteen candles in one breath.

The people in the class started a new round of booing and cheering, and some people took the opportunity to say something: "It won't work if you say your wish. If anyone fails the exam, remember to ask Zhang Tianle!"

The crowd dispersed a bit, some people collected their schoolbags at their seats, some brought cakes to share, and most of them gathered on the podium to line up to get cakes, and the birthday star also came to me with a small piece. Give me the handle of the fork and ask, "Do you want to eat?"

I took the fork and took a bite of the cake. The cream was creamy and sweet.

Someone shouted on the podium: "Is there anyone who responds to the graduation trip?"

"Yes, yes, yes, yes!"

"Where to go?"

"How's Xi'an?" "Beijing!" "I want to go to Sichuan!"

"It's too hot, these places are full of people during the holidays."

"Then Yunnan, Yunnan should not be so hot."

"Yes! Yunnan, I can!"

"But there will be a lot of people in Yunnan, right?"

"Oh, there are many people everywhere during the holiday."

They were discussing the graduation trip enthusiastically, and the college entrance examination seemed to be forgotten by everyone at this moment. I only took a bite of the cake and put down the fork. Zhang Tianle took it and ate the rest slowly.

I scooped a little butter from the plate and spread it on the tip of Zhang Tianle's nose, "Happy birthday, daughter-in-law."

He was stunned for a second, then he reacted and gave me a warning punch, and said fiercely, "Who is that wife."

"I'm your wife, okay?"

Zhang Tianle looked away unnaturally, pretending to wipe his nose, but there was no rebuttal to this sentence.

"Why don't you ask me for a gift?"

"Don't you love birthdays?"

"It's not that I don't like celebrating my own birthday, it's not that I don't like celebrating other people's birthdays."

Zhang Tianle glared at me when he heard the words, and then returned to his fierce tone: "Then who do you celebrate birthdays for 'others'?"

I felt that he was deliberately getting excited, so I nodded at him, "What's the matter, you, you still want to settle the old score?"

Zhang Tianle slapped me away, and stretched out his hand in front of me, "Is there a gift?"

I took out a USB flash drive from my pocket and put it in his palm, "Here, the gift is inside, open it yourself when you get home."

When Zhang Tianle was happy, he laughed, but he still said to himself: "What are you doing, you are so mysterious, and you still use a USB flash drive, it's so troublesome."

"No way, there are tens of gigabytes of stuff, it's faster to use a USB flash drive."

The man reflexively said "ah", with a mixture of shock and disappointment on his face.

I patted him on the back, "I'm lying to you, don't ask so many questions, you'll know when you go back and read."

When I met my mother at the school gate, it was nearly 10 minutes later than usual. As expected, the first thing she said when she saw me was: "Why is it so late?" It's just that there was no series of fatal calls like last time.

"Today is Tianle's birthday, and the class bought a cake to celebrate." I said truthfully.

"Oh." My mother probably didn't expect this situation, since it's her birthday, she can't say much.

"Mom, did I tell you that Tianle participated in the track and field Asian Youth Championship? He ran the 100-meter sprint." As I walked home with my mother, I continued talking. I told her, I don't know Did she take it to heart.

"He has entered the preliminaries, and after this round is the final, as long as he wins this preliminaries, no matter how bad he is, he will be the eighth in Asia. Isn't he very good?"

"Maybe I'm exaggerating, but I just think he can."

"I liked Tianle first. I knew what it felt like to be alone and helpless. I knew it from the time I started to like him, but I didn't know that he was also helpless until a few days ago."

"Now he won't be able to go to the competition," I thought about it, and changed the correct wording: "He won't go, do you think he is stupid?"

"Mom, it's not like this. I'm not helping."

"Didn't you ask me why I cried that day, because I clearly know the feeling of being alone and helpless, but I have been helping you all the time."

"Do you all think that we are rebellious and disobedient? Will it be fine when we mature? But put it in the future, and there will never be such a person who is rebellious and disobedient for me in the future."

"Leave me alone. If he separates from me one day in the future, I will come back to listen to your lesson."

After listening to it in silence, my mother still said: "You child is really obsessed. You two feel happy together now, that's because you haven't gotten in touch with people in society..."

"I will not be unhappy when I come into contact with people in the society, because I am with him."

"If you want to use strong words, it will never make sense." When we reached the corridor, my mother stomped her feet and turned on the voice-activated light, "You are dizzy now anyway, and you will know when you suffer in the future. I don't want to talk about you now. , anyway, you can weigh it clearly in your heart, the college entrance examination is still the most important thing."

"I know." My mother walked upstairs first, and I followed slowly behind.

It doesn't matter if she is extremely disappointed in me or helpless, but if I am not wrong, she should finally not want to spend any more energy on this matter. This is not loose, it does not mean that she accepts it, maybe another day We will have a long talk next time, but I think each time is a small step, not classified as progress or regression, but just a step of accumulation. Not only liking is a long-lasting process, but also communication.

After waiting all night, Zhang Tianle didn't make any movement. When we met at school the next day, there was no response. I wondered to myself, didn't he read the USB flash drive I gave him?

In fact, there is only one file in the USB flash drive, which is a video. I recorded it with my mobile phone, and specially exported it and copied it to the USB flash drive, so as to have a sense of substance that can be delivered to him.What I thought was that I couldn’t buy anything from him anyway, so it’s always okay to hang on to it with my heart, but I didn’t receive any feedback after waiting for a day.

The trick of recording video was used as a last resort, and the content of the recording was planned early in the morning.I found the score on the Internet, and I didn’t have time to learn the basics, so I had to ask someone to help me find a ready-made teacher. The active guitarist in the music club band is a sophomore student. I used my status as a senior to bully others. , Deducted his four lunch breaks, and barely taught me to learn a song.Now that I think about it, I borrowed the venue of the music classroom, and I used their own guitar. I didn’t spend a penny, and I used other people’s favors to fill it up. In the end, I didn’t play it live for Zhang Tianle, so I moved a stool stand I recorded it on the spot with my mobile phone in front of me, isn't it just perfunctory?

I actually rarely feel frustrated, but this time it was obvious.I really don't like celebrating birthdays, and I really don't like celebrating other people's birthdays. My mother always said to me: "You can't think that others don't mind just because you don't care. Your habit is very bad. You really have to change me and you. Said." Now I seem to know the consequences a little bit. Take the birthday as an example, I thought I put my heart into it, but in the end I put my heart into it compared to my original birthday. It doesn't make sense that the birthday person's expectations are reasonable, and then I feel frustrated in turn.

I don't have to give Zhang Tianle an unexpected surprise, and then ask for credit to list how much thought I put into it. I just thought about it and thought this would be what he wanted. Isn't giving a gift the same as giving what the other party wants? ?Turns out it doesn't seem to be, and that's why I'm frustrated.But thinking about it on the bright side, although Zhang Tianle didn't say he liked it, he didn't say he didn't like it either, probably because this gift just happened to be stuck in an indifferent position. It's a bit embarrassing, so it's best if he doesn't react as usual, but if he teases me in turn, I can't stand it.

The next few days passed quickly. The countdown on the blackboard became 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

There was no schedule on the last day, and the teachers of each subject went to the class they were teaching to finish their last class at will, and even the order was negotiated.Although it was class, except for reviewing the review content in the most general way, the rest of the time was used for chatting. The teachers were incredibly friendly on this day. The English teacher pointed out that the reason why we were always dead in class was that her class was boring. The teacher said that she was in a good mood today, so she would not take away our homework if we wanted to do other subjects. Although we have no homework to do today, it is normal for the physics teacher to say that we cannot learn. The last competition We still can't learn, and the university exams are not bad.The teachers uniformly didn’t mention the exams for the next two days, and didn’t leave any instructions, just like they usually came to class, they said that there was something for a class, and they would finish class on time without delaying the class. When each teacher left, the monitor Everyone would shout "stand up", and everyone stood up and shouted "goodbye, teacher", a total of six times.

In the afternoon, the class is more arbitrary. It can be self-study, activities, or physical education. People in the classroom sit or stand. Questions or come to chat with you again.Time flies so fast, an afternoon flies by in the blink of an eye, in fact, we said the old class's "goodbye, teacher" twice, in the morning when her class was over, we said it to her, and in the afternoon before leaving, we said it again, This is the real farewell.

The hatred for her is true, and the depth of love is also true. Teacher, she is a person who softens up a little bit and you can put aside all the grievances accumulated before and "forgive", but my feelings for Lao Ban In fact, it's just like that, everyone is a teacher and a student, you are angry with me and I am angry with you, and finally let each other go, everyone is happy.

In the afternoon, she came over and talked to everyone in the class. When we met those who were in a group, we would get together and chat. Although we are finally going to make it through, we love her, but it is still unnecessary to receive blessings one-on-one. , so the few people we often play together have already hugged the group at this time, waiting to finish chatting with the old class together.

There is no need to hide many things on the last day. Zhang Tianle and I stood together without avoiding suspicion. His attitude was still not very good. He didn't answer a word that the old class said. The other students only knew him. I was tightly targeted by Lao Ban, and I didn't know how far they had conflicted. Seeing that he turned a blind eye to Lao Ban, he gave me an embarrassed look.

Old Ban looked at me and then at Zhang Tianle, and said in a helpless tone, "You two, what are you going to do in the future?"

I was a little surprised, and I couldn't even tell whether she was sighing or really asking. Zhang Tianle shook her head in annoyance. Open the mouth: "You hold grudges at such a young age."

She said this to Zhang Tianle, she looked like someone who came to see a child throwing a temper tantrum, Zhang Tianle would not take hard things, he couldn't stand this, I trembled in my heart, I couldn't help but want to laugh.

"I don't take the college entrance examination, what do you care about me?" Zhang Tianle finally answered, the content of the words was still so embarrassing.

"There are too many students who hate me, I can't even remember them, but they should all remember me, will you do the same in the future?"

"No, I won't remember you at all, I will forget tomorrow."

The old class laughed again, and said: "Okay, forget it, so as not to trouble you when you think about it."

I felt that Zhang Tianle was about to explode, and said first: "Teacher, why are you teasing him?"

Old Ban looked at me when he heard the sound, and sighed worriedly, "You two really are, it doesn't matter whether you remember me or not, I will definitely remember you anyway."

I followed along: "Don't, you forget it too, so as not to trouble you when you think about it."

The boss scowled, and reprimanded displeasedly: "Your personality is more and more similar to Zhang Tianle!"

I feel that people around me are silent and afraid to speak, but in fact, as the person involved, I didn't feel how angry Zhang Tianle was. I think the chat was very interesting, it's such a time, what kind of conflict is there?

The old class silently gave a few more instructions to bring the admission ticket and stationery. Before leaving our area, he specially said a word to Zhang Tianle: "Leaving the school, you have to be responsible for yourself."

Zhang Tianle glanced at her, said "um", reluctantly accepted the words.

The last day of high school ended in such a dull way. Only after the self-study class last night did someone realize that it was the last evening self-study. It was so sleepy and lost, so I thought today would be There are scenes of reluctance, teachers and students embracing each other, crying bitterly, tears spilling on the school, etc., or the violent book throwing plot where the students shouted and shouted before, but we clearly bid farewell to the people and things in this school After a whole day, at the end it felt like farewell came quietly.Nothing happened, the teacher didn't come to send it off, and the students didn't miss it. It's probably because the college entrance examination is pressing tomorrow. After school, everyone went home to prepare for the exam. At most, they looked back at the school under the sunset before leaving. As a high school student on the last day, although most people will come back tomorrow, our examination room is located here, and mine is even located in this building, but if you come in tomorrow, you will be a graduate.

Zhang Tianle and I ran to the top floor of the laboratory building for a while, and sat against the wall in the corridor. I was a little melancholy and had nothing to say, and Zhang Tianle didn't make a sound. I stood up, patted my buttocks, and motioned to him: "Get up!" , What's the point of just sitting like this, let's take a look at the school, this time I'm going to fuck off completely, I still have two days left, you're really going to fuck off today."

I know that Zhang Tianle may not have so many feelings, and neither do I, but when it comes to graduating, I really feel a little bit reluctant.

I bumped into him on purpose, "Say a few words, don't you feel sad if you don't see me?"

Zhang Tianle was bumped into by me, probably inexplicably, and said tentatively: "Then what's the matter, you stay one level?"

I gave him a blank look without a word, and Zhang Tianle asked again: "Can you pass the exam?"

"You asked this, what are you going to do these two days?"

"Watch TV and watch the broadcast, and see what my level is if I really let it go."

Zhang Tianle did not shy away from mentioning this, but I was still unable to answer for a moment, and after thinking about it, I muttered: "The level of No.1..."

"What?" He answered subconsciously, turned his head to look at me, clearly heard me clearly, and said with a smile: "It's too blind, why are you doing this? Because you love me?"

"Yeah," I nodded heavily, "Of course."

Hearing this, Zhang Tianle took a good look at me for a while, then suddenly squeezed my face with both hands, forced me to bow my head, pressed a kiss on my forehead, and said: "So you will pass the exam, you will be the best , champion."

"Too blind." I lowered my head and smiled.

"Because I love you too," replied the voice from above.

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