moon illusion

Monday, October 5.

Yun Zaiye got up early in the morning. After watching his loving parents drive to the airport with a bunch of luggage, he packed his backpack and boarded the bus to school helplessly.

Monday is the beginning of a good week for Yun Zaiye.After all, there is no morning class today, so you can go to the cafeteria to eat a not-so-healthy fat-reducing breakfast after waking up, and then go to the gym to run and exercise...

When Yun Zaiye pushed open the dormitory door, the whole dormitory was silent, and no one welcomed his arrival.

Obviously, not only Yun Zaiye, but also his roommates also like Mondays without morning classes.After all, you can sleep in late, and after you get up, you can ask Master Yun, who always gets up early, to help everyone bring lunch—why not do it!

Seeing this situation, Yun Zaiye lightly put down his backpack, changed into his sportswear, and left with his water cup...

Unlike the silence in Dormitory 1, Shan 301st Floor, District H, Nanchuan University, Duhe No. [-] Middle School is very lively today.

Whether it is the playground, garden, corridor or classroom, students can be seen everywhere, and laughter can be heard everywhere.This week is the penultimate week before the college entrance examination. Every Monday of this week is a relaxation day for senior high school students.

Because the school will organize senior three classes to take graduation photos on this day.In the Duhe No. [-] Middle School with strict school regulations, only this day is the only day when the third-year students are allowed to bring their mobile phones to the school to take selfies with their classmates and teachers; One day, Duhe No. [-] Middle School will not look so rigid, students can take off their school uniforms and change back to casual clothes, and there is a youthful atmosphere wrapped in large school uniforms everywhere.

There are 24 classes in the third year of high school, [-] classes are in science, and only [-] are in liberal arts.You know, top students are always given special treatment in school, no matter when and where, even for trivial things like taking pictures, they can take advantage of it.

On this day, as long as you finish taking graduation photos, you can arrange the rest of your own time. You can go home early and have a good sleep; you can also go out with a few brothers and sisters to drink milk tea and eat hot pot; You can also return to the classroom and continue to wrestle with various exercise books. Maybe you will be lucky during the college entrance examination and see a familiar exercise.

The classes in Duhe No. 30 Middle School are often changed, and the classes are assigned according to the exam rankings. There are 40 students in Classes [-] to [-], that is, students who are in the top [-] in science or in the top [-] in liberal arts can study in this so-called elite class. .The rest of the classes have [-] students in each class, and they are arranged in order according to the rankings until the last one.

So obviously, the top students in the first class became the enviable group who were the first to take pictures and the first to leave.

However, as we all know, in Duhe No. [-] Middle School, there has never been such a saying as "relationship households" or "going through the back door". Even if you are the principal's son, you will not be able to enter the elite class if your grades are not at the top.Therefore, these students who are able to survive in the elite class today are tempered by countless nights of night reading and daytime classroom efficient learning.Even if they enjoy this privilege, there are very few students who will leave, and everyone will return to the classroom for self-study, for fear of missing the opportunity to learn every minute.

It seems to be like this in every high school. The closer the college entrance examination is, the more obvious the polarization of students will be reflected-students with top grades on weekdays will work harder and work harder, and their overall grades will increase faster than usual Fast; while the students who are not so outstanding in their academic performance on weekdays will show the courage and fighting spirit of "not being afraid in the face of danger", relax their tense nerves, and start to give themselves more leisure.

It is true that the shortcomings of exam-oriented education are obvious to all.But this does not mean that the education methods of other countries are better than the current exam-oriented education. After all, the cultural differences between countries cannot be ignored.Putting the education methods adapted to students from other countries on Chinese students may not necessarily bring about better results than exam-oriented education, and may even be counterproductive.

Taking another [-] steps back, the generation who grew up under exam-oriented education will have better resistance to stress and setbacks.Maybe the current situation is indeed difficult and tortuous, and I feel that the sea of ​​suffering is boundless and dark clouds overwhelm the sky, but when encountering difficulties and setbacks in the future, as long as I think of that experience, I can tell myself: At that time, I could persevere through such difficulties, and now What is insurmountable?

After all, you and I understand that the best thing about a young man is: Although he talks about giving up, he always holds his breath in his heart.

The camera swept across every young face, and when the shutter was pressed, a group of people scattered in twos and threes.The whole process took less than 2 minutes, as if nothing had happened before.But the scattered crowd and the "eggplant" echoing in your ears are telling you the truth that all this happened.It took us three years to fill this unexpected event, and it took us less than 2 minutes to bid farewell to it.It may be a little sloppy, but it seems that there is really no better way to complete this farewell decently and not so sad.

The classroom in Class [-] quickly returned to its usual self-study situation. Everyone was buried in piles of exercise books, and no one whispered to each other.Looking closely, there are only two or three vacant seats, probably going to the bathroom or going to the supermarket to buy breakfast.Unexpectedly, the owner of table No. [-] was not there either. That taciturn, cold and unapproachable boy, contrary to the normal behavior of top students, disappeared in Duhe No. [-] Middle School.

Qi Fengyao boarded a long-distance bus and spent a precious one and a half hours rushing to another city more than 40 kilometers away. He wanted to see what Nanchuan University looked like, and he also wanted to meet... that person.

Probably because of working days, there were very few people on the bus.After Qi Fengyao got into the car, he sat in the last row by the window.He likes this position, and he also likes this position when taking the bus on weekdays. It is like a small world isolated from the whole world, which can make him less anxious and nervous when facing many strangers.

He took out his mobile phone, put on the earphones, and leaned against the window frame with his eyes closed, shaking slightly with the bumps of the car.The sunlight shone through the glass on the boy's eyelids, and one could see the blue blood vessels under the thin skin, as well as the slightly trembling eyelashes.Qi Fengyao's eyelashes are very long, and his eyes are also very big, so when he blinks, people always feel that he is still a child who needs to be protected.

"Come on, Nanchuan is here, the passengers going to Nanchuan get off!" The driver stopped the car not far from the intersection of the expressway, and greeted the passengers in the car.

Qi Fengyao opened his eyes, not the haze of being woken up after a deep sleep, his eyes were still clear.After zipping up the hoodie, Qi Fengyao quickly got out of the car.After waiting on the side of the road for a while, a taxi came.

He beckoned to stop him, "Master, please go to Nanchuan University." After finishing speaking, he put on his earphones again, saying that he was cut off from the world.The greeting that the master was about to say just now got stuck in his throat.

Ten minutes later, a teenager appeared at the gate of Nanchuan University.No one stopped me when I entered the door, and I easily came to Chaomu Lake, the central area of ​​Nanchuan University.

Qi Fengyao stood by the lake and looked around.Canteen, playground, dormitory area, administrative building, library... Where will the person I am looking for be?

Forget it, try your luck, the boy walked towards the library——

As expected of a famous school with a history of more than 100 years, the library of Nanchuan University contains many times more books and ancient books than other universities in the entire university city.

There is a leisure area on the first floor, with free juice and desserts.Qi Fengyao randomly took out a book from one side of the bookshelf, returned to the sofa and sat down.

Open a random page, it is Zhang Dai's "Self-Fore Epitaph"——

"Small is a playboy, loves prosperity, loves mansions, beautiful maids, child prostitutes, fresh clothes, gourmet food, horses, lanterns, fireworks, pear orchards, propaganda, antiques, flowers and birds. Using tea to abuse tangerines, bookworms and poets, toil for half a life, all become dreams.

From the age of fifty, the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed, and they took refuge in the mountains. The survivors had broken beds, broken tripods and sick pianos, and countless books and inkstones.Clothes and vegetables are eaten by commoners, and they often stop cooking.Looking back 20 years ago, it was like a lifetime away. "

The young man shook his head. Although everyone has their own difficulties to overcome, and it is indeed difficult for each individual to empathize with each other, human beings are born with extraordinary talents and can empathize with others.The sadness and despair in the lines, even if you don't experience it, you can still feel it. This is probably... the feeling that there is nothing greater than death.

"Senior Brother Yun!" A boy waved to the direction behind Qi Fengyao, "You are here, I just want you to read my report, there is something wrong..."

Qi Fengyao was slightly taken aback, closed the book, and looked behind him.A tall boy was pushing open the door of the library and walking in. His face against the light was not very clear, and his whole figure seemed to be shrouded in a layer of golden, furry edges.

is it him?

When he got closer, his face finally became clearer - the hair grew longer, the edges and corners became more defined, and the youthfulness of his high school days faded away.Only those eyes have not changed, they are still as clear and transparent as a teenager.

The face in front of him gradually overlapped with the face in the newspaper in his memory—it was him!

I just want to come in to try my luck, but I don't want to actually meet.

Later, after Qi Fengyao formally got acquainted with Yun Zaiye, he couldn't wait to tell him——

When I saw you for the first time, I seemed to see the distant clouds and mist blowing over Mount Dai, dotted with orange sunsets, and the wind passed by and stopped by the window.All these beautiful things came to me in an instant, telling me to love this world—the world with you.