Chapter 304 Girl's Thoughts
On an early winter evening, the sky-blue school flag of Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School fluttered in the warm sun. When the school bell rang, the campus was as lively as a market. Girls carrying backpacks and laughing and playing walked side by side through the moss-covered brick walls of the dormitories. Next to the iron-blue electric poles was a cement-colored basketball court. The younger boys who ran tirelessly and the girls who stopped to pause always reminded Li Yufei of her freshman year in high school.

After school, she didn't go home early because she was on duty today.

There is one more thing. A few days ago, our class teacher Wang Mingzhen said that the college entrance examination is only half a year away, and this year is your last New Year's Day in this school. Our class will hold a party and we will have a good time together.

Li Yufei is the class's arts and cultural committee member and is responsible for coordinating the evening party.

She was very attentive and kept thinking about the show.

The days in this school are coming to an end, but the students seem to be having a hard time. They are all anxious and uneasy. They are afraid of losing and failing. They are also looking forward to and fearing the judgment of the goddess of fate when she wakes up in midsummer next year.

Sometimes, Li Yufei would think that after graduation, everyone would go their separate ways and many people might never see each other again. In these last few days, she should give everyone a memory worth remembering.

"Okay, okay, we've finally finished sweeping. Yufei, I'll go take out the trash and we'll go home together later." Yu Qingqing, who was on duty with Li Yufei, swept the melon peels and paper scraps into the trash can and turned her head to call her.

Li Yufei was wiping the podium: "Qingqing, you go first. I'll take out the trash and clean the blackboard later."

Yu Qingqing put down the broom, returned to her desk to pack up her homework, and asked, "By the way, Yufei, do you have knitting needles at home?"

Li Yufei said: "Yes, what's the matter?"

Yu Qingqing said in a somewhat inadequate tone: "Can you bring it to school tomorrow? I need it."

Li Yufei smiled. Knitting needles are used to knit scarves. She had seen many girls in school knitting scarves for themselves or for the boys they liked. However, they were all in the third year of high school now and had a lot of homework. For a girl like Yu Qingqing, who had good grades, studied very hard, and came from a well-off family, it was impossible for her to spend time knitting a scarf for herself at this time. She would just buy it directly. As for who she would knit it for, it was obvious.

Li Yufei held her chin with both hands and looked at Yu Qingqing: "Qingqing, do you like Kaizi too?"

Yu Qingqing's face turned red: "How could that be..."

Li Yufei smiled peacefully: "Silly, you can't hide your love for him, because your eyes will light up when you look at him, you will laugh when you talk, and you will jump when you walk."

"Oh, it's so scary to chat with you. I can't hide anything from you. But, to be honest... I'm not there yet to say I like you. Anyway, I'm not sure. I feel so confused. I always feel uneasy. I'm already in my third year of high school..."

"Yes, I'm already a senior in high school."

"Don't talk about me, what about you?"

"What's wrong with me?"

"If you don't want to talk about it, then don't talk about it. It's just going to make things more confusing. In a word, there are so many boys in school who like you that they can circle the football field three times. Why bother about some guy who doesn't understand romance?"

Yu Qingqing stuck out her tongue, as if she had revealed a shocking secret, looked out the window at the aisle, then quickly rolled up her schoolbag and left: "I'm leaving now, Yufei, you should go home early too, and remember to bring your knitting needles to school tomorrow."

Li Yufei stood in front of the window, staring out in a daze. After Yu Qingqing left, she was the only one left in the classroom. The winter night came early, and all the lights in the classroom were on. The pale light shone behind her, and Yu Qingqing's words kept echoing in her ears.

Li Yufei recalled that during the morning exercises, she and Zhang Yunqi had talked about the poem "Everything is Full of Hope". It was indeed quite talented and much better than what people of their age wrote. She wanted Zhang Yunqi to perform a poetry recitation program at the New Year's Eve party.

At that time, Zhang Yunqi smiled and said, "Please spare me. I get goose bumps just thinking about that scene. If you really have to put on a show, then just sing a song." Li Yufei was looking forward to it, but in the huge crowd, looking at the smile on Zhang Yunqi's face, she suddenly had a strange question. Why did this young man always smile in such a reassuring way, as if he didn't have any of the worries that his peers had.

Li Yufei picked up the eraser and started wiping the blackboard.

She was very careful and serious. She used water to wipe the chalk marks on the blackboard and even the notes in the corners clean, as if they were new from the store.

In fact, she doesn't like to wipe the blackboard. When she is doing something seriously, she can empty her mind and think about nothing.

After wiping the blackboard and taking out the trash, Li Yufei left the classroom.

When she walked down the teaching building, through the quiet campus path, and arrived at the school gate, she suddenly heard someone calling her name: "Yufei."

Li Yufei looked in the direction of the voice and saw a boy in a black tweed coat getting out of an Audi parked at the side of the school gate. Although she hadn't seen him for a long time, she still recognized him at a glance.

She was stunned for a moment: "Great?"

Gao Ming smiled and waved: "Long time no see."

Li Yufei suddenly felt a kind of panic that she had never felt before. She subconsciously glanced at Zhangji Qifengdu Fish Noodle Shop across the street. When she didn't see the familiar figure, she turned around and said to Gao Ming with relief, "When did you come back from abroad?"

Gao Ming walked up to her and said, "The day before yesterday. You're not in a hurry to go home, are you? How about we go have dinner together?"

Li Yufei shook her head: "No, my father is waiting for me at home alone."

The smile on Gao Ming's face remained unchanged. Compared to two years ago, this boy seemed to be much more mature. He put his hands in his pockets and said, "Then I'll take you home. We can ask your former classmates to get together some other day when you have a holiday."

Li Yufei thought about it, and finally nodded: "Then... thank you for your help."

Gao Ming smiled: "Why are you being so polite to me?"

Audi drove through the streets of Jiangchuan in the dead of winter. The houses on both sides were lit up with twinkling lights, and the solid skyline in the sky was looming. Li Yufei looked at the branches and leaves cut down by the wind outside the window. After a long time, she suddenly said: "Gao Ming, I don't know if it's appropriate for me to say this. As a friend, I hope you don't take the past things to heart. It's over."

"What happened before? I don't remember."

"It seems that you have changed a lot in the past two years."

"Good or bad?"

"Of course it's good." Li Yufei smiled. In fact, she was referring to the previous grievances between Gao Ming and Zhang Yunqi. No matter what, Gao Ming was expelled from school, sent to a juvenile detention center, and finally went abroad to study, which were all directly related to Zhang Yunqi. So much so that the moment she saw Gao Ming at the school gate, she subconsciously thought of Zhang Yunqi. She didn't know what would have happened if Zhang Yunqi was in Zhangji at that time and the two of them met.

Yes, she was worried that Gao Ming would take revenge on Zhang Yunqi when he came back this time. With Gao Ming's personality, he was totally capable of doing such a thing, but she didn't want to say it out loud because she didn't know how to say it out loud. After all, Zhang Yunqi was nothing to her now.

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