Chapter 31 Old Junior High School Brothers
Near evening, Xu Chen and Feng Qingqing came out of the Internet cafe.
This is the center of the town, and Feng Qingqing's home is nearby. It is a compound belonging to a government agency.
Xu Chen said he wanted to send Feng Qingqing back, but for some reason, the little girl seemed a little reluctant.
In fact, Xu Chen was a little impatient, but due to Feng Qingqing's status as the "leader's daughter", he still wanted to accompany him for a while.
"Then I'll take you to drink juice!"
"Okay..."
The two of them arrived at a fruit store, squeezed two glasses of fresh orange juice, and then walked towards Feng Qingqing's home while drinking.
The town is not big to begin with, and we soon arrived at the gate of the compound.
The two said goodbye, and Feng Qingqing suddenly said:
"Xu Chen, actually I don't have a boyfriend yet, so I just lied to you..."
Xu Chen was stunned for a moment, laughed twice, but didn't say anything.
Feng Qingqing wanted to say something else, but she hesitated when she saw the big and small bags Xu Chen was carrying.
She pursed her lips:
"Then I'll go up first. If you have anything, you can send me QQ or text messages."
"Okay!"
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Xu Chen had something to eat in the town, then took the shoes and clothes he bought for Xie Bingran and took the bus home.
When I got home in the evening, my father Xu Zhiquan was already at home.
Xu Zhiquan asked with a smile: "How are you getting along with the little girl?"
Xu Chen: "It's pretty good!"
Xu Zhiquan: "What did you buy in these big and small bags?"
Xu Chen: "Shoes and sportswear."
Xu Zhiquan: "My son, are you going to start exercising?"
Xu Chen smiled, but did not answer directly:
"Dad, do you still remember my deskmate in the first and second grade of junior high school?"
Xu Zhiquan frowned and thought for a while, but didn't remember.
Xu Chen: "That little girl who always has no money to eat, Xie Bingran."
Xu Zhiquan: "I remember! You told me at that time that I gave you some extra pocket money and asked you to buy some food for her.
Where is she going to school now? Why are you suddenly talking about her? ”
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After lunch the next day, Xu Chen took the town bus and came to the junior high school where he was.
Carrying large and small bags in his hands were the shoes and sports equipment he bought for Xie Bingran yesterday.
Arriving at the school gate, Xu Chen looked up at the gate, as well as the teaching building and office building behind it.
It still had the same tattered appearance, and not much had changed in the past few years.
The slogans on the wall at the school entrance are slightly mottled.
[Unite and work hard, be realistic and enterprising]
【Knowledge changes destiny】
[If you don’t accumulate small streams, you won’t be able to become a river or a sea; if you don’t accumulate small steps, you won’t be able to reach a thousand miles]
【Affirm yourself, create yourself, surpass yourself】
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The junior high school in this rural town is not a good school. More than half of the students in each level have been diverted or dropped out after finishing junior high school.
Children in rural towns are divided into two extremes.
One is to study extremely hard and regard studying and taking exams as the only way to change your destiny.
They are often introverted and silent, and suffer from low self-esteem.
There is another type who gave up on taking exams from the beginning. In junior high school, they basically fought and skipped classes, burning away their adolescence in aimless indulgence.
And such children are often arrogant, cruel, angry and arrogant.
At the age of fourteen or fifteen, they stood in the same place, but a huge gap was torn apart in their lives.
And even among the first type of children who study hard, they can only be considered a minority who can advance to a good high school in the city by taking the high school entrance examination. This is related to the teaching in this township school, as well as the environment in which he was born and grew up.
It is precisely because of this that Xie Bingran still surprised many people when he entered Tiancheng No. 1 Middle School.
After all, in the eyes of many people, Xie Bingran was among a bunch of bad boys, and it seemed that his fate of dropping out of school after graduation was already doomed.
But who would have expected that "Brother Bing" performed exceptionally well in the high school entrance examination and passed the entrance exam to No. 1 Middle School in the city just under the score line.
But Xu Chen knew that this might be Xie Bingran's true level.
In fact, if she hadn't "gone dark" after her second year of junior high school and turned into Brother Bing, who skipped classes and got into fights, maybe her grades would have been better.
When I was sitting at the same table with Xu Chen in the first and second grades of junior high school, that little girl who was introverted and couldn't even eat, was always very serious and meticulous in her studies.
Thinking of this, Xu Chen couldn't help but sigh.
After entering high school, he broke off contact with Xie Bingran.
However, we still know from the side that Xie Bingran was even less interested in studying when he entered high school, and his grades were basically at the bottom.
If she relied solely on the college entrance examination, as Xie Bingran said that night, she would probably go out to work to make money after the college entrance examination.
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Fortunately, she still has untapped athletic talent...
Xu Chen turned around and went to the playground.
There is no lock on the rusty iron door. The run-down junior high school in the township has been neglected.
The 400-meter dirt track has not yet been paved with plastic.
In the football field in the middle, there are bunches of disorderly and yellow weeds.
Just like the lives of many young girls in this rural junior high school.
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Xu Chen walked into the playground and turned around to see a dozen people standing around the podium.
They were all teenagers of seventeen or eighteen years old, with cigarettes in their mouths and arms around each other.
Xu Chen saw at a glance that Xie Bingran was standing among them.
She was still wearing the baggy black jacket, with her hands in her pockets and an unlit cigarette in her mouth.
In the crowd, a stout young man saw Xu Chen and said in a loud voice:
"Xu Chen is here!"
Xu Chen thought for a while and remembered that this sturdy kid was actually his classmate in junior high school, and his name seemed to be Li Qiang.
After looking at the other people, I recognized a few people from the same junior high school, but I couldn't remember their names.
Xu Chen walked forward, and several of them whispered:
"Xu Chen, long time no see."
Xu Chen remembered that these classmates in junior high school all hung out with "Brother Bing".
Xie Bingran raised his head and glanced at Xu Chen, raised his hand, took down the cigarette from his mouth, and hid it in his palm.
Li Qiang walked forward with a smile and handed Xu Chen a cigarette:
"Brother Chen smokes."
Xu Chen smiled: "No."
Li Qiang said:
"We heard that Brother Bing was here, so we came to chat with Brother Bing..."
Xu Chen smiled and didn't say anything.
Several other people also came forward and chatted with Xu Chen for a while.
They were all classmates at the same school. Although Xu Chen was not familiar with them, they were of the same age after all, so they could still chat together.
Only then did Xu Chen realize that these people had rushed back from all directions when they heard that "Brother Bing" was coming back to school.
When they were in junior high school, they were all so-called "bad kids" with poor grades. They stopped studying after graduating from junior high school.
Some are studying in technical schools, some are returning to the village to farm, some are driving taxis, some are tightening screws in nearby factories, and some are working as apprentices in restaurants...
In a certain sense, they have all "returned their evil ways and returned to the right path" and have not continued to wander in the Tao.
These brothers who were brothers of Bing Ge each embarked on a different life after graduating from junior high school.
But when they heard that "Brother Bing" had returned to this school, they each put down what they were doing and came to this dilapidated and overgrown playground.
There was actually nothing big going on here, it was just spreading cheap cigarettes of different packages to each other, laughing and joking, just like when we were in junior high school...
At a certain moment, Xu Chen seemed to understand a little bit about Xie Bingran's past and her "brothers".
(End of chapter)