Fork in the road

The first half of the second quarter’s evening self-study is still self-introduction. Bai Xiaoyuan took out this copybook and planned to write while listening to it. Yu Xian next to him took out a book. Bai Xiaoyuan was a little curious and reached out for Yu Xian. When I got the book, I found on the cover that it said "College Entrance Exam Full Score Composition Encyclopedia".

Bai Xiaoyuan let out a low groan, flipped through the inner pages casually, and found that the contents inside seemed not quite right.Turning back to the first page, Bai Xiaoyuan found that it said "Murder on the Orient Express", authored by Agatha Christie.

Bai Xiaoyuan felt that Yu Xian was really hiding something. After three years in junior high school, he changed this conscientious academic master into a student master who fished in troubled waters.Bai Xiaoyuan put his copybook on Yu Xian's desk, put the pen in his hand into Yu Xian's right hand, and said in a low voice, "I'm going to learn how to write."

After speaking, he put the book on the table and read it.

Yu Xian wanted to say, "Well, if it's confiscated, remember to say it's your book", but in the end he didn't say anything, just pouted and wrote the copybook.

After the self-introduction process was over, Chen Yu sat behind the podium and began to speak: "Do you all remember the names of your classmates? It's okay if you don't remember them. Anyway, there is still time. Those who want to run for the class committee can use the remaining half Just write down the reasons for running for each class, and leave it to me when the class is over. As for the department representative, I will appoint it, but it is only temporary, and it is up to the teacher to decide whether to change it or not. The students whose names I have called please stand up, Everyone can remember the representative of the department."

Chen Yu first talked about the class representatives of other subjects, and did not talk about the subject he taught, mathematics until the end.

"Bai Xiaoyuan."

Yu Xian felt that with Bai Xiaoyuan's full score in mathematics, the department representative should have left, so when he heard Bai Xiaoyuan's name as expected, he immediately poked Bai Xiaoyuan under the table, and it turned out that the other party was very good at reading novels. He was quite fascinated, and after being stabbed, he froze for a moment before realizing it, and stood up abruptly, no, rather than standing up, he jumped up.

"Yu Xian."

After Bai Xiaoyuan stood up, Yu Xian was a little surprised when he heard his name. He didn't think that his grades could be ranked high in a class full of good students, maybe it would be the bottom one.Although he hesitated in his heart, he slowly stood up.

Chen Yu asked: "Bai Xiaoyuan, what are you looking at, so fascinated?"

Bai Xiaoyuan raised the book in his hand with a serious face and said without guilt: "I'm reading anthologies."

Chen Yu's smile seemed a little subtle, "Composition selection..."

Yu Xian was about to feel guilty for Bai Xiaoyuan, but Bai Xiaoyuan's face was still calm.

In the end, Chen Yu didn't say anything, and waved his hand to let the two of them sit down, and Bai Xiaoyuan didn't put away the book impatiently afterwards, but continued to read it on the table calmly until the bell rang for the end of get out of class stand up.

On the way home, Yu Xian complained with a sad expression: "Why did the teacher ask me to be the math class representative..."

"Some teachers like to find class representatives who have poor grades in a single subject. Maybe this can improve their grades?"

"I can understand this idea, but I probably don't have the lowest score in the class..." Yu Xian knew that it would be useless to complain, but he just couldn't restrain his unhappiness.He is not a student who likes to communicate with the teacher, and the words he has spoken to the teacher on his own initiative for so many years in school don't add up to much. If it weren't for his good grades, he would definitely be the most insignificant student in the class.If possible, Yu Xian would like to point the front line between the classroom and home every day, and never set foot in the teachers' offices, he finds it annoying.

"But I guess you should be the one who is most biased..." Bai Xiaoyuan remembered that Yu Xian's total score was eight points higher than his own, but the other party was [-] points worse than himself in one subject of mathematics, and his other His subjects are not particularly bad, so it can be seen that Yu Xian's partial subjects should be really serious.

"Fortunately, you are also the class representative, and I will entrust you with the communication with the teacher in the future."

Then is there any work not to communicate with the teacher... Bai Xiaoyuan was a little helpless, but he also knew how much his old classmate didn't like interacting with the teacher. He let go of the handlebar with one hand and scratched his hair, "Okay Ah, but it doesn't rule out the possibility that the teacher likes you so much that he insists on you going to him."

Yu Xian complained expressionlessly: "That's really terrible."

The military training began the next day.Bai Xiaoyuan stood in a military posture with his classmates under the sun, and felt that it was no different from the military training at the beginning of junior high school.

Everyone is wearing school uniforms. The upper body is a loose cotton white short-sleeved shirt. Only the collar is dark blue. The No. [-] Middle School badge is printed on the chest. The lower body is the same loose navy blue sweatpants. Some people wear cropped pants. , Some people wear cropped trousers, and the shoes are ugly sneakers issued by the school. Anyway, everyone doesn't feel sorry for being so ugly, and they can be made with great effort when they go forward.

Bai Xiaoyuan felt that the fabric of the school uniform was quite comfortable, so he buttoned the collar to the top meticulously—the collar is quite loose anyway, and it would be better to make a circle around the neck instead of showing a point at the collarbone Come on.

When Yu Xian saw Bai Xiaoyuan's buttons, he said with disgust whether he was sick or not.

Bai Xiaoyuan was still laughing when he was said to be sick. He looked at Yu Xian's complexion that was fairer than his own, and couldn't help but ask, "Salted fish, do you wear sunscreen or something?"

"No, did you paint it?"

"I don't have either, but judging by the weather, it's useless to paint it on. It is estimated that in ten days, all the new students in the school will be turned into coal balls."

Yu Xian squinted his eyes and looked at the dazzling sunlight, "It's not necessarily true, maybe there are people who can't get tanned."

After ten days of military training, Bai Xiaoyuan finally knew who couldn't tan.

Standing beside Yu Xian, Bai Xiaoyuan felt that he was an African.

...or an African who has color difference on his body and is suspected of suffering from vitiligo.

The morning of the last day of the military training was a military parade, after which the military training ended, and the school gave them a day and a half to rest, and the next night when they came for evening self-study, the school officially started.

Bai Xiaoyuan took Yu Xian out that afternoon. Bai Xiaoyuan, who hadn't worn his own clothes for ten days, finally put on his own T-shirt, and then he was shocked by his neck of two different colors.

He couldn't help getting closer to the mirror, shook his head sadly, and said to himself: "So I was so white before..." He hurried out without much emotion, probably Yu Xian was already there wait for him.

When seeing Yu Xian, Bai Xiaoyuan was in a bad mood.I never thought of comparing the skin colors of the two before, and Bai Xiaoyuan would not pay attention to it so carefully, but now Bai Xiaoyuan already knows how serious her color difference is, and after seeing Yu Xian, she subconsciously sized him up. fan...

Bai Xiaoyuan pulled Yu Xian's arm and put it next to him. The comparison between the two looked extremely tragic.

"You're the salty fish who can't get tanned..." Bai Xiaoyuan looked at the difference in skin color between the two, and he couldn't love each other.

Yu Xian didn't think it was a good thing not to be tanned, but he was very happy to see Bai Xiaoyuan being hit so hard, so he joked, "How about calling you Hei Xiaoyuan in the future? Or a little black ape?"

"You might as well call me a chimpanzee..."

"You're too embarrassed to answer this name, but I'm too embarrassed to say it, it's embarrassing to hear..." Yu Xian seemed a little disgusted.

"Tsk, you have a lot of things, Xianyu." With a disgusted tone, Bai Xiaoyuan just pushed Yu Xian with a smile.

In the afternoon, the two of them planned to ride bicycles to a relatively large stationery store nearby to buy the pens and notebooks they needed, and then went to buy books.Neither of them had any special requirements for stationery, so when they arrived at the stationery store, Bai Xiaoyuan and Yu Xianbing split up, one bought a pen and the other bought a book, and decided quickly, leaving most of the time for buying books.

There is a relatively large book wholesale market in the city.It is said to be a market, but it is actually more like a shopping mall. The stores are clean, bright and well-organized. Different stores sell different types of books. Whether it is teaching supplements or novels and comics, the needs of customers can basically be met, and it is better than going directly to the bookstore. It's cheaper to buy, so Bai Xiaoyuan and Yu Xian have been here a lot, whether they act together or separately.

Bai Xiaoyuan and Yu Xian locked the car, and after entering the gate, Bai Xiaoyuan said, "By the way, it didn't seem to have moved here when we came together last time, right?" I have been to many markets with Yu Xian, but I have no impression of coming to this new place with Yu Xian.

Yu Xian thought for a while, and answered with certainty: "That's right, it should be the house we moved in when we were in junior high school. The last time I went was to elementary school. After all, I have no contact with your junior high school."

Bai Xiaoyuan coughed dryly, "Then what, let's go buy books first."

Bai Xiaoyuan wanted to buy a few tutorial books before school started. After hearing Bai Xiaoyuan's plan, Yu Xian said, "Then buy the books you want first. I haven't made up my mind about what to buy. Pick a long time."

Bai Xiaoyuan knows Yu Xian's hobbies, like reading and buying books. You must know that when both of them are at the age of three days without renting a house, Yu Xian can sit in the bookstore for an afternoon, while Bai Xiaoyuan Basically maintain the ADHD state of changing a book in 10 minutes.

But now Bai Xiaoyuan can persist in reading all afternoon until he is too hungry. He guesses that Yu Xian should be able to read books until he enters samadhi. Thinking about it, it is really a bit scary.

After Bai Xiaoyuan picked out the tutorial books he wanted to buy, there were actually not too many of them, mainly science, mathematics, and physics and chemistry. Other Bai Xiaoyuan felt that there was no need for them, but after buying these four books, Yu Xian read them. His eyes became quite admirable.Bai Xiaoyuan asked suspiciously, "You don't want to buy salted fish?"

"I won't buy it, and I won't read it if I buy it."

This time it was Bai Xiaoyuan who stood in awe, "So you don't need a tutorial book...it's amazing."

"It's just because I'm lazy." Yu Xian has used this sentence many times, and when he said it, there was a little helplessness.

Bai Xiaoyuan quickly changed the subject, "I've bought all the books here, let's go and read the idle books, I want to buy a few too—I just don't know if I have time to read them."

"Time is like water in a sponge—"

"But I can't squeeze." Bai Xiaoyuan answered with a smile.

Yu Xian glanced at Bai Xiaoyuan and said indifferently, "It's just as long as you are happy."

In the following time, Bai Xiaoyuan finally saw Yu Xian's enthusiasm for study that he had never shown before after a few years.