Chapter 13

Xu Wen screwed on the faucet and shook the water droplets from his hands as he took a few steps forward

In front of the top row of dormitories was the school’s playground, and both the playground and the road were dirt

A long pole stood in front of the dormitory, with a light bulb on top of it acting as a streetlight

Wen Yiming was standing under the light, his hands in his pockets

Xu Man didn’t see that it was him until he reached the front

Wen Yiming stood up straight and smiled apologetically, “Sorry! I was in a bit of a hurry this afternoon and didn’t come to school with you”

“That’s okay” Xu Wen genuinely didn’t mind and asked him, “Are you done with your business?”

“Uh-huh” Wen Yiming nodded without mentioning more, inviting Xu Man, “Let’s eat together tomorrow morning?”

Xu Man shook his head, “No need, I brought dinner at home”

“Then give me a chance to apologize at noon?”

Xu Man still shook his head, reminding him, “Wen Yiming, this is school”

Although the school didn’t explicitly prohibit early love, of course, half of the classmates were already not considered to be in early love But male and female classmates would consciously keep their distance from each other

Wen Yiming froze, obviously a little surprised, then resumed his gentle smile, “I’m sorry, it’s me who didn’t think it through Then wait for the weekend to go home together?”

“We’ll see then!” Xu Wen didn’t respond in one breath and asked him, “Is there something you’re looking for me for?”

“It’s not much! It’s just that I thought I said I’d come to school with you, but I didn’t do it, so I’m afraid you’ll get angry and come to take a look Girls dormitory that I’m not convenient to go, thinking that you will come to fetch water sooner or later, so I waited here”

“Huh? You don’t have to be so polite” Xu Wen was a bit embarrassed, “Have you been waiting for me for a long time?”

“Just a while” Wen Yiming shook his head, he pinched the end of school to come After a pause, he opened his mouth to request, “Xu Man, can you lend me your high school notes?”

“Okay” Xu Man nodded, “I’ll organize it for you later”

“Ask, shall we go back first or wait for you?” Shao Yue called out to her

“Together” After Xu Wen returned to Shao Yue, she apologized and looked at Wen Yiming, “Is there anything else? I’ll leave first if there’s nothing, my roommate is calling me”

“It’s fine You go!”

Xu asked goodbye and ran back, ran halfway and remembered that he still didn’t know how many classes Wen Yiming was in, and wanted to turn around and ask him

Once he turned around, he realized that Wen Yiming wasn’t coming towards the dormitory and was riding his bike towards the outside of the school

Lights out at this hour, what are you doing outside?

Xu Wen turned back, went to the faucet and put on the basin, followed Li Yun and Shao Yue to the dormitory

Li Yun was older and knew more about men and women, and elbowed Xu Man a bit, “Who are you with?”

Xu Man hesitated or shook his head, “No, a commune He is also a classmate of our school”

It’s not that she’s not honest, mainly she doesn’t know what Wen Yiming means

Wen Yiming didn’t understand that he wanted to be with her, but he showed that he cared about her

He had an emergency and couldn’t come to school with her, but he even asked his cousin to find her

At night, he came to apologize to her

Is it possible that people in the seventies are so ambiguous when it comes to dating?

Or not object as a friend is also so considerate?

When she went to bed at night, she had to be able to ask Li Yun for advice Xu Wen thought

Shao Yue let out a wow, “From our class? Why haven’t I seen him before?”

Xu Wen knew that Shao Yue had a lively personality and preferred to deal with people

She knows at least eighty of the one hundred people in the whole grade

Even in the first year of high school, she must know at least half of them

Thinking of this Xu asked her, “Do you know Wen Yiming in the first year of high school?”

Shao Yue thought carefully and shook her head, “No impression Strange, according to reason, so well-mannered, the last name is also considered a special guy I shouldn’t have no impression at all”

There are genuinely not many people with the surname Wen in the school

Li Yun also had no impression

Three people were thinking about the school’s three to four hundred people It was normal not to recognize them

They didn’t take it to heart and went back to the dormitory jokingly

Each row of dormitory door is paved with a meter wide flower brick There is a small ditch in front of the tiles for students to pour sewage

Xu Wen they are squatting on the brick to the small ditch to wash

Generally, each person has two basins, one for washing the face and one for washing the feet

The water from the face basin was first poured into the foot basin, and the rest was used to wash the face and brush the teeth

Another reason why Xu Man liked school was that even though she was poor here, she was not considered a stranger

Usually, no one brushes their teeth in the production team, and they only do it once during the New Year’s festivals This made Xu Man, who insisted on brushing her teeth every day, look like an anomaly

Once the neighbors saw her and laughed at her for being poor Some people even said that brushing too much was bad for the teeth, that it would hurt them and that they would lose their teeth when they got old

Xu Man began to try to explain, but it was useless

Xu’s family of seven, only Xu Che was forced to brush her teeth with her under her education

Moreover, she suspected that after she left home, Xu Che would also be lazy and refuse to brush

At the very least, everyone at school would brush their teeth regardless of whether they were male or female

After washing, the dormitory members would stand on the brick path in front of the door, chatting for a while or playing a small game or something to pass the time

Xu Wen and their row of dormitories, their level only accounted for two dormitories, the rest of the residents are lower level of the school girls

It was said to be a lower level, but it was actually half a level

Because Xu Man’s level was enrolled in the winter Last summer, the second batch of new students enrolled, and a week ago, the new age students also enrolled

There were more people at one level than the other

The whole school has more than five hundred students, and there are basically no empty rooms in the dormitory area

Shao Yueyue is the best at chatting, and when she chats from west to east, there’s no school gossip she doesn’t know

Even the freshman grade first what is called, how many points and which girl is the most good-looking which boy is the most handsome all as if it were a family favorite

On this point, Xu Wen sighed to himself, towards Shao Yue thumbs up

To the lights out bell, the students only stuck in a little reluctant to go back to the dormitory into their own mosquito nets to sleep Because there is no fan in the dormitory, it is particularly hot

Xu Man’s mosquito net is Zhu Meizhen with the family’s old mosquito nets changed, and then how to wash can not be seen once was white There are still a few patches on it

The mosquito net hole is very dense, blocking mosquitoes is not a problem, but the wind is also quite thorough

Xu Wen hand shaking a banana fan, the body is still sweaty, had to climb up, stood in the aisle wringing a wet towel simply scrubbed once

This will be cooler, but also one of the reasons why she is willing to come to school, at home can not even do this

Shao Yueyue and Li Yun are the same, both too hot to sleep, simply chatting

Shao Yue smacked through the mosquito net affecting her play chat is not enjoyable, hard to pull Xu Man together to drill into Li Yun’s mosquito net

Li Yun’s mosquito net is new, the position of the bed is close to the window, slightly cooler

Shao Yue blathered for half a day, and found that Li Yun himself, Xu Man lowered his head with a puzzled face, obviously did not listen to her

Her elbow touched Xu Man a bit: “Ask, you hit just now on the soul, what is the situation?”

Xu Man shook his head, “Nothing”

“Nothing you’re traveling out of the sky?” Shao Yue did not believe it

Li Yun teased her, “You’re not still thinking about the male classmate from earlier, are you?”

Xu Wen bit her lip, she was indeed thinking about Wen Yiming, not thinking but pondering

His attitude seemed close but not close, making her a bit troubled

This is not a good thing to say to her family, Li Yun and Shao Yue are considered to be one of Xu’s few friends, after thinking about it, Xu confessed, “In fact, I had a blind date with him during the summer vacation”

Shao Yue was shocked, “He is really your object ah?”

Xu Man shook her head and sighed lightly, “I don’t know what his relationship with me is Because of a misunderstanding on the night of the blind date, we didn’t say a few words and went our separate ways Later, the matchmaker didn’t come to my house to talk about it, so I thought it didn’t work out, but he came to my house again a few days later to look for me and invite me to go to school with him But it turned out that he had something to do and couldn’t come to me, so he asked his cousin to come to my house to give me a bicycle No, he came back in the evening to apologize I’m a bit confused, what does he mean by this?”

Li Yun thought for a moment and said, “Maybe it’s a tacit admission that you’re a couple? After all, you didn’t ask the matchmaker to say you didn’t agree He didn’t say he didn’t agree either Matchmaking people didn’t say they were against it is together, right?”

She hadn’t met this situation either, often agreeing or disagreeing, she had to talk to the matchmaker

“Huh?” Xu Wen blinked, “Is that so?”

Shao Yue held an opposing view, “He didn’t say that he liked asking to go out with asking, what kind of object is this? Since it’s a blind date, doesn’t the fact that he didn’t continue through the matchmaker later indicate that he doesn’t want to? Maybe he only wants to be ‘friends’ with Ask?”

Xu Wen sighed, “He’s making it quite difficult for me I can’t just go and ask him myself, ‘Do you want to be with me?’ Right?”

Shao Yue pressed her, “Then if he really wanted to have a relationship with you, would you say yes?”

Xu Wen shook her head, “I haven’t thought of that yet”

For some reason, when Shao Yue asked her this, the figure of Lu Yuanzheng appeared in her mind

Xu Man shook her head to shake off the untimely thoughts, “Forget it Let’s not talk about me What about you guys? Ever been on a blind date?”

Shao Yue shook her head, she was still young

Li Yun nodded, a little shy, “We were introduced through a matchmaker during the New Year ”

The three people chatted until the latter part of the night before they were able to sleep, and early in the morning they were woken up by the wake up bell

The school’s wake-up bell is the kind of manual bell, especially loud Every morning, the janitor would ring the bell on time and on schedule

Xu Wen yawned and sat up

Li Yun had already gotten up to clean up her bed, but she didn’t forget to greet the two of them, “Hurry up, you two, you can’t be late for the national flag today”

On Monday, the national flag must be raised before breakfast

Four to five hundred people gathered in front of the school building, stood under the flagpole in units of classes, listened to the national anthem and watched the red flag rise

This was followed by the principal’s speech

“Today is the first day of the new semester It is also the day when the new students officially enroll Our school now has more than five hundred students, and both the teaching building and the dormitory are very tight However, I have good news to share with you all” The white-haired principal glowingly announced, looking genuinely happy, “The county has granted us a piece of land to build a new campus”

All the students cheered at the news

The principal waited for everyone to be almost happy before continuing, “However, due to the lack of construction funds, we need to be semi self-reliant What does that mean? It means that we all have to go together to clean up the new campus and build the foundation so to speak! In addition to the highly specialized and technical work, we need to do it ourselves We’re all going to build our new school by ourselves”

No matter what the heart thinks, the applause is a warm anyway

Dare not not enthusiastic, the thought of negative resistance to labor the consequences of that would be serious

Xu Wen followed with a smile and applauded vigorously

The next step was for each homeroom teacher to inform their class of the part they would be undertaking

When the class teacher finished arranging the task and called for dismissal, Xu asked Li Yun and Shao Yue to go to the cafeteria first, and he went back to the dormitory to eat cooked noodles

Li Yun and Shao Yue are both considered urban households, they do not have three yuan subsidy, but the living expenses given by their families will be slightly more, and they are also free to spend money

They also knew that Xu Man’s family was in trouble, so they answered and went to the cafeteria first

Previously, they had tried to help Xu Man, but were all rejected by him

Xu Man returned to the dormitory, took out the enamel cylinder for drinking water, added half of the hot water, used a ceramic spoon to scoop two spoons of cooked noodles from the jar containing the noodles and put them into the water, and added a little bit of sugar for flavor

After stirring for a while, he added half a cup of cool water

When Li Yun and Shao Yue came back from cooking, Xu Wen was sitting on the bed drinking the batter

“It smells so good!” Shao Yue inhaled, “Ask, share some with me!”

Li Yun raised her hand, “I want some too”

Xu Man used their water cups to brew a cup for each of them, adding more sugar than his own

Shao Yue took a sip and raved, “Delicious!” She broke off a piece of her own oil cake and gave it to Xu Man, “This is quite filling, help me eat some”

Li Yun also gave Xu Man a bun, “That’s right, come on, let’s share it together”

Only then did Xu Man realize that the two of them were afraid that she wouldn’t have enough to eat, and that they were giving her food in different ways

She also wondered what was so fragrant about such bland and tasteless batter

“Thank you!” Xu Man wasn’t a person who didn’t know better

“We’re all in the same dormitory, why are you so polite?” Shao Yue waved her hand

After eating breakfast and cleaning up the dormitory, they had to go to class

There are four classes in the morning and two classes in the afternoon

In the afternoon after class is ideological and political study and labor

This study is also a school-wide study

According to the number of participants, it is divided into group study, class study, age study and school-organized study

Usually it was group study It was basically the study of newspapers and articles It has to be the kind of article that is news or positive thinking

Pick one person to read it and then start discussing the study

At the end, each person has to express his or her own opinion and write a written summary

In the afternoon, there are fewer regular classes and more audio, physical and aesthetic classes

Xu Wen’s class is physical education on Monday afternoons

After getting up from lunch break, Xu Wen Shao Yue and Li Yun three people standing in the dormitory door, face are more or less a little bad

Liu Rulan called out to them to wait for her to go together, but again, they were hesitant

Li Yun is a good old character stood on the side and did not say anything

Xu Wen estimated the time, late for gym class will be nothing, also did not say much

Only Shao Yue is a straightforward person, constantly rolling her eyes, her mouth kept urging: “Liu Rulan, can you hurry up? It’s just a gym class, it’s not like you’re getting married, so why are you putting on makeup? You’re not afraid of sweating from running and becoming a big flowery face!”

Liu Rulan stood in front of a wooden cabinet with a square mirror with legs, next to the square mirror were a bunch of bottles and jars She was applying paint to her face layer by layer She still managed to find time to reply to Shao Yue, “What do you know? Putting on makeup just because of gym class, what if you get a tan?”

Shao Yue bristled, “You won’t be white even if you don’t get a tan Look at people asking how to get a tan and you can’t get dark”

Liu Rulan choked, no matter what Shao Yue said, she didn’t pay attention to her

Seeing that the whole dormitory area was empty, Liu Rulan was satisfied and put away the bottles and cans

She also ignored Shao Yue and went up to hold Li Yun’s arm, “Sister Yun Yun, let’s go!”

Shao Yue was so angry that she waved her fist behind her and complained to Xu Man, “Ask, look at her, what kind of person is she! Obviously, she called out to us to wait for her, but she took Sister Yun Yun on her arm and left, as if we were rushing to wait for her, and didn’t even look at us”

Xu Man didn’t care, locking the door while saying, “Just don’t wait for her next time”

Getting angry with this kind of person was a way to lower one’s quality

In fact, she didn’t want to wait this time, mainly because she was on duty today, and she stayed behind to prevent Liu Rulan from messing up the hygiene she had cleaned

“I won’t be surnamed Shao if I wait for her next time!” Shao Yue points to the sky and swears, “How is the transformation of a demon like a student?!”

After walking for a while, Shao Yue is still angry, “What’s the use of having so many layers of paste? It’s not as good as washing your face with water”

Xu Wen not only washed his face with water, but also dressed plainly

Fear of physical education class activity is not convenient, deliberately changed into a short-sleeved shirt and pants, still Xu Wang or other relatives replaced the old clothes

Just like this, Liu Rulan is also ten blocks away

Shao Yue swept Xu Wen two eyes, suddenly a flash of light, suddenly turned anger into joy, “Haha! I said she ran so fast and didn’t wait for us, afraid to walk with you and be compared to you, right? It must be, as far as Liu Rulan’s bit of caution is concerned, I still don’t know her!”

“You’re thinking too much Walk a few steps faster! It’s going to be late” Xu Wen lost his smile and shook his head

In front of the dormitory area was the playground, and one could already see quite a few students gathered on the playground

Shao Yue also saw it and exclaimed in surprise, “Why are there so many people? The second class is also having physical education class? It seems like not only the second class, but also the lower grades, eh? The new students are also in What are they all gathered there for?”

Xu Wen shook her head, she didn’t know either Looking at the number of people in the playground, about the entire school was here

Normally, gym class was actually considered a rare relaxation Usually the boys would kick a ball and play badminton The girls would just jump on a leather strap and kick a shuttlecock

When she got closer, Xu Wen was stunned

She saw Lu Yuanzheng, who was still able to look down on the crowd even though he was surrounded by the crowd, thanks to his height

Xu Wen: ?

What is he doing here?