I met you back in 2000

The few hundred dollars I borrowed from Su Ze made me so worried.Although he didn't mention it, I had to return it.Otherwise, I would really be a person who embezzled public funds in his mind.

I got on the bus early this morning and went to the largest Xinhua Bookstore in the city. What were I going to do?Busking chant.

I thought about it for a long time, and the only thing I can use to make money is probably my English ability.I'm not bragging. If I hadn't had bad luck back then, I wouldn't be able to tell which school I'm working as a teacher.

Xinhua Bookstore is well-known in our city. Because of the large traffic flow, there are often stalls at the door to distribute small advertisements.I arrived a little late, and the good seats were taken up by major educational institutions and college students.I squeezed on a small step and held the sign of English tutoring, which was very desolate.

Standing down for most of the day, many people asked me, but none asked me.

"Come out and do it at such a young age?" the child's father asked me.

"It's poor, the family conditions are not good." The child's mother sympathized with me.

"He looks younger than me, I don't want him to teach." The child pouted and glared at me.

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For the first time, I wish I could grow more anxious.But I am also stupid, now I only have the ability but no certificate, who will believe it?I used to say that diplomas are useless, but now I'm really slapped in the face.

A thin young man came in halfway, and he was taken aback when he saw the sign in my hand.I also stared at him for three seconds, and the counselor almost blurted out.The world is really too small.

The counselor is also my senior, so he should still be in freshman year, but I have graduated almost eight years ago.So is he a senior or a junior?The seniority is a bit messy, let's not think about it.

Unexpectedly, six years ago, he had become thin like a bolt of lightning.I remember that one year when the summer vacation was about to start, a typhoon blew, and even I, a local, was stranded at school and couldn’t get out.But he used his life to explain the rationality of Fatty's existence downstairs in our dormitory.The video of "the counselor of the English class was blown to Siberia by the wind" was hung on the school intranet and laughed all summer.This may have something to do with his failure to become a full-time player.

"Despite the wind and rain, I will stand still. Hengpi: Please cherish every fat person around you." This is my comment below the video, because my weight was close to 160 at the time, and experts said that I could resist a typhoon of level 10.

"Eat more." I said to him earnestly.

He didn't seem to react, he gave a suspicious sound, and the army green messenger bag slid off his shoulder.I reached out to catch it, and when I handed it to him, I noticed the obvious stitching marks on the shoulder straps.I probably already guessed why he was so thin.

Back then when I laughed at him with my classmates, I felt so guilty, I really wanted to give him a new schoolbag right now.

I was thinking about how to warn him about the strongest typhoon in mainland China in the past 06 years in 60, but Su Ze who suddenly appeared

interrupt.

"What are you doing here?"

"Be a tutor." I shook the sign in my hand.

I said that Su Ze never looked at me directly, but now he is staring at me with his mouth slightly open, his eyes are completely looking at a mentally retarded person.After reading Mentally Retarded, he didn't say anything, and went straight into the bookstore.

I don't know how long it took, but it was so long that the counselors all took the class and left.

Unexpectedly, the sun at the end of May was really scorching people, so I quickly found a shady place to rest. Most of the roadsides in S City are camphor trees, with leaves falling in early spring and blooming in early summer.There are large white florets clustered on the tips of the branches, like the color of buds.I squinted my eyes and yawned against the tree, and my nose was filled with the smell of the closet at home.

"Give me the sign."

When I opened my eyes, I saw Su Zeli not far away. He handed me a red bean popsicle, and while I was chewing on it, he took out a pen and added the word "Mathematics" on the sign.

Su Ze is a living sign, and within a few minutes, a group of weird aunts gathered around, and those who didn't know thought that some celebrity had come to sign books.It really makes sense for his bookstore to use him for publicity.

Parents of our generation are generally not highly educated, but they all know the importance of children's learning.An aunt even brought her daughter who was about to take the college entrance examination to ask Su Ze to teach mathematics. Isn't this a joke, but I sternly refused.Su Ze also said modestly that he could only teach elementary school students.

If I only teach elementary school, then I will give it as a gift, because at this time I only start learning English in junior high school, and my education is preschool at best.

You can see that Su Ze is so good at mathematics, so people are naturally not smart enough.

"Fifty-five cents." Su Ze finally said.

I'm afraid it will be indefinitely before I can repay the money.