Chapter 2 The first step of a writer
Address: No. 37 Middle School
Time: 2012, a fogless morning in a foggy city
Characters: All 42 of Class Five People
Then the story begins.
"Sunflower acupuncture hand, swoosh!" Zhou Lin suddenly tapped acupuncture points on her classmate's shoulders.
Gu Lu, who was copying the English text, paused without raising his head, "I don't have time to fool around with you, I can barely finish copying in English."
Zhou Lin looked down and found that My deskmate holds two pens in his right hand and is frantically comparing notes with his homework book.
This is about the special punishment of English teacher Tai from Class 5. If you do poorly in the monthly exam, you will be asked to copy one page of each word from the word list on the back of the English textbook.
So just use a slightly thicker gel pen and hold it, just in line with the distance between the upper and lower rows of the English homework book. In addition, punishment is just for punishment and the teacher does not check, so Gu Lu’s method of saving 50% is feasible.
Realizing that she was disturbing her deskmate, Zhou Lin put away the playful smile on her face. Just as she was about to say something, she heard her deskmate say again:
"What are you still doing in a daze? Why haven't you unlocked my acupuncture points yet?" , I have to deliver it before noon."
"Hey, Sunflower Acupoint Relief Hand." Zhou Lin also imitated the TV and crossed her wrists twice before poking her deskmate's shoulder twice.
I can feel that the force of my fingers is much lighter when removing acupuncture points.
Gu Lu showed an almost normal expression and continued to copy. According to what he said before time travel, the action of his female deskmate should be called "flower shaking hand", right?
"Don't love me, it will be fruitless, unless you try to force me to death." Even after traveling for two or three days, Gu Lu still occasionally pops up bad memes from a few years ago on the Internet.
It is time travel, not rebirth, because according to Gu Lu's understanding in the past few days, this earth is not the other earth, and there are differences in culture, entertainment and sports.
Before the time travel, Gu Lu was one of the ordinary people. He was a street writer who graduated from a technical secondary school and could barely make a living. The only unusual thing about him might be that he was not ordinary thick-skinned.
Originally, Internet writers are prone to obesity and are more likely to die suddenly than ordinary people. In the process of staying up all night coding and updating 20,000 words, he died without any explanation.
The last thought in my mind before death was, "If you die, die, but don't be reborn in my own novel!"
Forgot to introduce it, he mainly writes about "Medieval Cthulhu" themes.
I'm glad I didn't travel into my own novel. I think I'm in a normal world now, right?
The tense atmosphere in the third grade classroom is as abundant as the air of Lay's potato chips. Even during recess, there are only poor students like Gu Lu and top students like Zhou Lin. Only those with extreme head and tail will fight and make trouble.
The sweet and harsh school bell rang through the school, and the students all returned to their seats and sat down. A few students who were eager to express themselves couldn't hold back the "joy of class" and said small words, but they were disciplined The committee members were shouted down and suppressed.
The second class is math class.
There was bad news and good news before Gu Lu.
Let’s talk about the bad news first. Before Gu Lu traveled through time, he went to a vocational high school with poor science skills. Therefore, after traveling through time, he looked at the math and physics questions in the third grade of junior high school. As far as he knew...he knew nothing. .
The good news is that he was also a poor student, and his soul and body cognition have reached a high degree of unity, and he has acquired the passive skill "sunspot's presence" of a poor student. As long as it does not affect the order of the class, teachers in various subjects will ignore it.
簌簌——
The sound of a little hamster eating sounded in his ears. Gu Lu turned around and saw his deskmate Zhou Lin staring at the direction of the blackboard warily. Tear a piece of spicy strip into small strips and stuff it into your mouth. The action of probing your head and brain makes you feel like a ragdoll cat is about to do something bad.
After finishing one piece, Zhou Lin handed it to her tablemate, indicating that she would also have a piece.
Gu Lu picked up a whole piece and pulled out a composition book. There were not many words written in it, but it was dark and dirty because it had been repeatedly erased with an eraser and used as a backgammon board. .
Choosing a slightly cleaner page, Gu Lu wrote a sentence and passed it on. From the handwriting of the two of them, he could tell who was the poor student.
[Gu: Why don’t you eat after class?
Zhou: Eating in class tastes better. ]
Good guy, it's true that Tang Monk's meat costs fifty cents. In such a dodging state, it tastes like fifty cents.
One class is over, but the next period is also mathematics, so there will be no break for ten minutes. The math teacher is particularly gracious and lets the students go to the toilet for two or three minutes. The boys in the back row rush out of the classroom. fastest.
It doesn’t matter if you pee or not, as long as you can go to the toilet and take a walk.
"Go away, Gulu, I'll ask you to go to the toilet." Fan Xiaotian patted his friend on the shoulder. "I'm a little busy, why don't you help me take care of this matter." Gu Lu responded.
"That's right, you don't need to go there in person for peeing." Fan Xiaotian agreed, "I'll change a urinal to help you in the middle of peeing."
And you, my friend, you are the one who really said When it was done, Gu Lu expressed his approval and watched Xiaotian leave.
Gu Lu turned around and noticed a detail. During the break, Zhou Lin really did not continue to eat snacks. He looked at the outstanding students who were full of youthful spirit and had a little rebellion that ordinary people didn't know.
Two or three minutes passed in a blink of an eye, and the students basically returned to the classroom. They followed Fan Xiaotian for a moment, and then they heard the math teacher frowning and scolding:
“There are forty students in the class. , everyone waited for a minute, which was more than half an hour, and they didn’t hurry back to their seats.”
Is it really a waste of time to change slots? Gu Lu still felt a little guilty.
Dip——
A voice suddenly came from his head. His professional habits in his previous life made him react instantly. Did he come through the Golden Finger? !
[Bronfman Award][Sapir Award][French Prime Minister’s Literary Award]
Three titles came to Gu Lu’s mind. He had never heard of the three awards, but he could wait. There was no movement for a while.
What is the situation?
Gu Lu shouted in his heart, "Brothers of the system, eldest brother, father, grandpa, ancestors, come out quickly..."
It was really dumb.
The sudden "beep" sound must have touched the golden finger, so what was it?
The teacher’s scolding? Fan Xiaotian’s resentment?
Many Internet writing routines flashed through the minds of street writers, such as collecting grievances, witnessing famous scenes, or others.
For the next time, Gu Lu tried to wake up Golden Finger, but failed without exception.
Late self-study in No. 37 Middle School ends at 8:30, but it is already the third year of junior high school. Poor students have the "privilege" that top students envy, and they do not need to attend late self-study.
"Put it in your bag, don't be discovered by the great white shark." Fan Xiaotian was also a poor student. Since their homes were in opposite directions, he said goodbye at the school gate.
At six o'clock in the afternoon, Gu Lu walked out of the school gate, more than 20 minutes away.
You have to pass by the overpass and the underground shopping mall.
There are many vendors on the overpass. One of the special ones is the man with glasses who has a laptop in front of him. He makes money by helping download music, movies and novels to SD cards.
Memories of the times. Although Android phones have been released in this era, the mainstream market is still Symbian. In addition, it is troublesome to go to Internet cafes to download things, so this industry was born.
There are many small shops for ear piercing and photo shoots in underground shopping malls. Although the school has repeatedly warned that hair perms and ear piercing are not allowed, many students still secretly get their ears pierced at the risk of being called by their parents if they find out.
I got home at 6:30. The [福] on the door panel was old and worn. It was hung two years ago. Since my parents divorced, the unreliable "old man" has never changed it.
The word "Fu" is similar to the furniture in the house, revealing the temperament of aging.
"I made ten yuan today, and I can add an egg to it. That's awesome." Gu Lu put down his schoolbag and went to the kitchen to make dinner for himself. Usually one egg, but today there are two.
Egg fried rice needs to be fried overnight to be fragrant. Isn’t it a coincidence that this leftover rice happened to be from last night?
After eating, Gu Lu picked up the piggy bank. It was the most precious thing of the original body. It was shaped like a white ceramic piggy. The money saved in it was about twenty yuan.
As soon as he picked up the piggy bank, Gu Lu heard the "beep" sound again, and the three labels [Bronfman Award] [Sapir Award] [French Prime Minister's Literary Award] in his mind turned into a book "The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God".
Details: This book contains 22 short stories and short stories by Etegar Keret. The novels have been serialized in Harpers, New York Times, Paris Review, Peep Show and other publications.
Gu Lu looked at the piggy-shaped piggy bank strangely. He was confused because of two things. One reason why it was triggered again was that there was no pattern at all.
The second "The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God" comes from the earth before he traveled through, and he can read it in his mind...
(End of this chapter)