pen pal

8. Zhou Ruxin doesn't really want to interrupt her "reading career", but she is afraid that it will be information from her parents. To be honest, teachers are hard to do now, and some parents are really hard to mess with. If you don't If he can return the phone call and reply the message in time, he may be sued by him to the principal's office.

Zhou Ruxin has always adhered to the principle of "being ashamed of her heart", but she doesn't want to be contaminated with grievances for no reason.So on weekdays, she has always been polite to her parents, always answering calls and messages.So even though she really wanted to read the article, she still closed the page and opened WeChat to read it.

Fortunately, it wasn't someone's parents looking for her this time, it was the "Qin Xin" who just added the message.

A big smiley emoji, greeting: "Have a great weekend!"

Zhou Ruxin likes gentle and polite people, and seeing this message, she has an initial affection for that stranger for no reason.

feel.She replied: "Happy weekend, may I ask who you are?"

The other party replied quickly: "I am He Jieying's colleague Lin Suqing."

Zhou Ruxin was thinking about whether to send a formal greeting again, when the other party's message came again.

It still started with a big smiley face: "Mr. Zhou, do you mind asking? You and Jieying are high school classmates.

learn right? "

Zhou Ruxin replied: "Well, yes, we were classmates back then."

The other party came over with a grinning emoji, and then another question: "Mr. Zhou, did you ever have pen pals back then? Well, specifically, did you ever write to a girl from No. [-] Middle School?" letter?"

pen pal?Girls from the third middle school?

Zhou Ruxin was stunned for a moment. In fact, she really wished that there was a forgetting machine in the world to forget the past.

However, the father who had her dearest relatives and respect in the past, over the years, how many times in the middle of the night dreamed that he was still the one talking and laughing. When he woke up, he was lying alone on the iron bed in a foreign land. Ren burst into tears.At this moment, this simple question from this stranger brought Zhou Ruxin back to the past.

Zhou Ruxin was originally a handsome young man in high school, but it was a pity that it was difficult to be handsome under the heavy academic pressure.Zhou Ruxin's No. [-] Middle School is an old provincial key middle school.

The pressure of entering a higher school and the competition among classmates make many good youths turn into little old men and old women.What's more, Zhou Ruxin always knew that she could never make mistakes. For her, her father sacrificed too much, did not remarry, carried the whole family on his own, and worked hard outside year after year. The "losing money" in the eyes went to high school and was looked down upon in the family.

How many people secretly hoped that Zhou Ruxin would miss the college entrance examination, so that they could watch the jokes about their father and daughter.The fact that his father didn't talk about these things doesn't mean that Zhou Ruxin doesn't understand.

So she worked really hard and focused single-mindedly on her studies.A person's energy and time are limited, if too much energy and effort are spent on academics, they will naturally appear to have no desires in other aspects, so they will appear to have an excellent personality.

It is said that where there are people, there will be disputes. Perhaps because of this, if a person has almost no desires, basically the relationship between people will not be too bad.

Therefore, Zhou Ruxin, because she has never had disputes with anyone and only reads textbooks, her only hobby is reading, and she also likes to write occasionally. Of course, she does not dare to call what she writes. For the article, it's just a few lines of text, hehe, so her popularity is not bad.

However, because of being immersed in studying hard, she is not very good at communicating with people, so naturally she has very few close friends.However, she has a pen pal that she values ​​very much.

The Internet at that time was far less popular than it is now, so anyone who likes to write something either likes to keep a diary, or likes to make pen pals and write letters to exchange ideas with each other.

At that time, pen pals were popular in high school campuses. While exchanging life thoughts, they could also fully satisfy a person's desire to like to write.

Zhou Ruxin's first and only pen pal is Qingqing.

Speaking of it, the whole process of Zhou Ruxin making this pen pal was quite dramatic.

There was a letter written to a certain class of Qingqing in No. [-] Middle School that was sent to their school by mistake (actually, it’s not surprising, Zhou Ruxin attended No. [-] Middle School, No. [-] Middle School and No. [-] Middle School, and it was only a gap. When she met a careless postman, Naturally, it was sent by mistake!), but since it was a letter sent by mistake, naturally no one claimed it for a long time.

Stamp collection was the most popular at that time, so many letters would have their stamps removed before reaching the owner, and if a stamp tearer was not very refined, it would be easy to tear the envelopes together.

However, at that time, basically every class had a student who was in charge of sending and receiving letters. Since it was discovered that someone was unscrupulously tearing up stamps, the person in charge of letters in each class went to the school communication room a lot. , so the situation of stamps being torn has obviously improved.

Zhou Ruxin is not the person in charge of letters in their class, but because she occasionally sends articles to the Supplement Department of the City Evening News, but she doesn't want people in her class to know about it, so she habitually will When there is an answer from the newspaper editorial department, go to the school communication room.

After walking a lot, she also has a very peculiar habit.Maybe it's because she likes to write some words, Zhou Ruxin has always felt that every carefully written word is the painstaking effort of the writer, and it is worthy of being cherished.

So ah, there are too many visits to the reception room. One of the things she often does is to repack the letters that have been "peeled" by philatelists because of delivery errors and have not reached the owner's hands for a long time. Into the envelopes she bought herself , Then write the recipient's information as it is, and then put it in the reception room as it is.

On weekdays, Zhou Ruxin never spends money recklessly, but she really feels that every text and every letter contains a person's thoughts, and an envelope doesn't cost much money, so this habit has been formed.

Of course, the happiest thing is that the letters that have been reorganized by her usually reach the owner after being stranded for a few days.

Occasionally there are letters sent to the wrong address in the reception room, but such letters are generally not peeled off. It seems that children from key schools, no matter how much they yearn for the beautiful stamps, they can’t "spread family ugliness". Bar?hehe.

So, when Zhou Ruxin saw that a letter that was obviously sent to the wrong address was also peeled, she couldn't help but think, it seems that the stamp on the envelope is too beautiful, right?

Well, in the No. [-] and No. [-] middle schools, I think I met a careless postman. The name of the recipient is written as "Qingqing". Qingqing must be a pseudonym.

Perhaps because Zhou Ruxin likes to write, she longs to have a pen pal.However, although stamps are not expensive, if you really have a pen pal who often writes letters, you still need a small expense, so Zhou Ruxin just thought about it, and didn't really try to make a pen pal.

But she attaches great importance to the communication between pen pals, so after reading this letter, she thought about it and then did a very cute thing. This time she not only bought a new envelope and repacked the letter, I also bought a new postage stamp and pasted it on, and mailed it to the original address.

Moreover, she was meticulous, and she also attached a small explanation letter of her own in the envelope, which basically explained that the letter had taken a long time to turn around due to the postman's misdelivery, and hoped that the recipient would not worry.

Also, she made a small apology for what the stamp collector at her school had done.

That day, in fact, Zhou Ruxin went to see if there was any reply from her own letter. She had just written a small article about "lost" and submitted it to the Supplement Department of the Evening News.

Of course, since she didn't hear back, Zhou Ruxin knew that the essay she submitted that time was still not accepted. This disappointment has happened many times, so Zhou Ruxin will inevitably feel a little sad.

To put it very mundanely, at that time, if an article was published, there was a ten-yuan manuscript fee. What is the concept of ten yuan? Let’s put it this way, at that time, the price of a big meat bun was [-] cents. Therefore, ten yuan is very valuable to Zhou Ruxin.

It's just that time never flows faster or slower because of someone's sorrow.

Of course, under the heavy academic pressure, she has long forgotten such small things as helping others to resend the letter.

Until one day, a classmate in charge of letters in the class handed her a letter: "Zhou Ruxin, do you have a classmate studying in No. [-] Middle School?"

"Huh? No. [-] Middle School? No..." Zhou Ruxin took the letter and looked at it, ah, Qingqing from a certain class of No. [-] Middle School?

All of a sudden, the memory came back, she was a little dazed, the classmate next to her looked at her curiously, thought for a while, Zhou Ruxin replied: "Oh, I remembered, I have a classmate who is good in the same class. I didn't get into No. [-] Middle School, so I went to No. [-] Middle School, probably she wrote me the letter."

The young Zhou Ruxin, because of her past, deeply knows that people's words are scary, so she avoids unnecessary annoyances if she can, including things like making pen pals. There are too many letters coming and going. Most of them will peep curiously, and the troublemakers in the second class will also like to make jokes when they have nothing to do. Instead of causing these troubles later, it is better to pinch the source from the beginning.