Chapter 371 That boy lit up the sky for me

After dinner, Zhang Yunqi washed the dishes and Chu Jian took a bath.

Washing dishes is fast, taking a shower is slow. After washing the dishes, Zhang Yunqi lay on the sofa and flipped through the "Shanghai Film Pictorial" boredly, admiring the graceful figures of female stars. The sound of running water could be heard from the bathroom.

About twenty minutes later, Chu Jian came out of the bathroom. She didn't need to wear school uniforms for evening classes, so she wore her favorite white cotton skirt, a pair of flat black leather shoes and white lace socks, and a plain ponytail. Her eyes were clean and clear. Facing Zhang Yunqi's motionless eyes, she blushed a little embarrassedly: "What's wrong?"

Zhang Yunqi smiled and said it was nothing.

Carrying their school bags, they went out.

On the way to school, Chu Jian walked beside Zhang Yunqi and whispered to him that the school had been reluctant to disclose the tuition fees.

Zhang Yunqi had no interest in school affairs, and he did not expect Chu Jian to care about it. He was quite surprised and asked, "The college entrance examination is coming soon, why do you want to participate in this?"

Chu Jian said, "I was chosen."

Zhang Yunqi thought about it and realized that it was true. The school valued those with good grades. As long as they could be persuaded not to mess around, the basic base would be stabilized. As for those little fools with poor grades, if they dared to make trouble, they would be cut one by one. As for asking the school to announce the tuition fees for Saturday classes, it was too much to think about it. This was a matter of getting rid of the hat.

As they were talking, the two of them walked to the classroom as the bell rang.

The teacher for today's evening study session is Wang Mingzhen.

At the No. 1 Middle School in the city, Wang Mingzhen is a teacher who is very popular among students.

In class, he was humorous, talented and never bound by any rules. In his lecture notes, writers who lived a simple life were so perverted, and foreign literature was so dissolute. Only the Chinese literature created by Qu Yuan, Sima Qian, Li Bai, Du Fu, Su Shi and Lu Xun was the orthodox oriental literature, which was particularly able to broaden everyone's horizons.

Outside the classroom, he was a man of high moral character, magnanimous and generous. Many students in the school had received his help in private. Zhang Yunqi would never forget the scene during the snowstorm last winter when Wang Mingzhen taught seven or eight students in thin clothes by the light of a kerosene lamp in the narrow living room.

However, Teacher Wang Mingzhen's physical condition was a little poor. In the past year, he became visibly thinner, his complexion became yellow, and he kept coughing during class due to smoking.

Because of this, he seldom sat in class for evening self-study. However, the bell had already rung by then, and with Wang Mingzhen there, the classroom was very quiet. Zhang Yunqi and Chu Jian also returned to their seats, and took out their exercise books from the sea of ​​questions and books that covered their heads, and began to do the questions seriously.

Although Zhang Yunqi sometimes asked for leave, he was still quite serious in class. His grades were not outstanding, but they were not bad either. They were just acceptable. Of course, compared with Chu Jian's grades, they were really not good.

From this aspect, Zhang Yunqi felt some pressure, most of which came from their first meeting. He didn't want to make this gentle girl sad, so he decided to calm down and study hard in the few months before the college entrance examination, and try to get into a good school.

At about nine o'clock, Zhang Yunqi put down his pen, turned his head and whispered to Chu Jian who was sitting next to him: "The weather is so nice, let's go for a walk?"

Chu Jian was stunned: "I'm in class."

Zhang Yunqi said: "The college entrance examination is just a few months away. Before that, I think you need to skip class once."

Chu Jian frowned: "What's the reason for this?"

Zhang Yunqi said: "A high school without skipping classes is not a complete high school."

Chu Jian pursed his lips and said, "Didn't you promise me to study hard when we had dinner tonight?"

Zhang Yunqi closed the textbook and laughed: "I should say it starts from tomorrow. Tonight doesn't count."

Zhang Yunqi did say that at the time. It was awkward to say anything else since it was their first meeting. She couldn't beat this guy.

As a good girl, this was the first time that Chu Jian skipped class during her school days, and she felt very nervous. It happened that the teacher in the class today was the head teacher, Wang Mingzhen. As she walked from her seat to the back door of the classroom, Chu Jian felt that the teacher's eyes were following her like a tracker.

It was a very dark night at that time.

Zhang Yunqi and Chu Jian took a walk through the campus buildings and forest paths and came to the football field.

The spring grass had sprouted and the spring breeze was warm. Zhang Yunqi sat on the grass holding Chu Jian's hand and looking at the sky. Chu Jian asked, "What are you doing here?"

Zhang Yunqi retracted his gaze and looked at Chu Jian: "Do you remember what day it is today?"

Chu Jian understood what Zhang Yunqi meant and whispered, "My birthday."

Zhang Yunqi asked: "What's your birthday wish?"

Chu Jian pursed his lips and said, "You can't speak your wishes out loud, or they won't work."

Zhang Yunqi said: "Telling it to me is the same as telling it to yourself."

After a long, long time, Chu Jian finally whispered, "Be good and study hard with me."

"Is your 18th birthday wish that simple?"

“This is not simple at all.”

When I first heard this, I couldn’t help but think of what happened after the college entrance examination.

I don't know why, but she was really afraid that after the college entrance examination, they would not be able to study in the same place and go to and from school together. Whenever she thought about not having this boy in her life, her heart felt like a big piece was missing out of thin air, as if life had no meaning anymore and the whole world had lost its color.

As she thought about it, she would fall into a depressed mood that she had created herself.

Zhang Yunqi looked at the girl next to him and said with a smile: "There are still a few months before the college entrance examination. I can prove to you how simple this matter is."

"Really?"

"Of course it's true." Zhang Yunqi said, "I have deceived many people, but I have never deceived you."

Chu Jian held his chin with both hands, looked at the stars in the sky, and smiled quietly: "Hey, Yunqi, if you lie to me in the future, don't wake me up again. Because some beautiful dreams cannot be awakened. If you wake up, the world will collapse." Zhang Yunqi quietly looked at the girl's clear little face and listened to her mumbling. He suddenly patted the grass stuck on his pants, stood up and said: "I don't know what will happen in the future. Now, I want the stars in the sky to wish you a happy birthday."

When I first saw him, I turned my head to look at Zhang Yunqi. Looking at his thin face looking up at the sky, I seemed to be talking to myself: "What a beautiful dream."

Zhang Yunqi said: "Wait here for a moment."

Then, Chu Jian watched Zhang Yunqi jog away with his hands in his pockets.

He seemed to have gone a long way.

It was pitch black all around, and I couldn't see him at first glance.

After a long while, Chu Jian didn't know where Zhang Yunqi had gone, so she stood up and called out, "Yunqi, where are you?"

no respond.

I was a little nervous when I first saw her and wanted to walk over.

However, at this moment, she suddenly felt that the dark sky became bright.

"Whoosh!" There was a sound.

She looked up and saw a meteor streak across the sky, but it came from the bottom up, exploding in the black night and turning into a blooming flower. Then, hundreds of streamers fell, instantly illuminating the clear little face she had just seen.

He opened his mouth in surprise.

Looking at the edge of the campus, whoosh! whoosh! whoosh! whoosh... fireworks kept shooting up into the sky, like a reverse meteor shower, exploding non-stop above the sky, and like flower seeds, scattering in the sky, blooming in the dark night, golden sunflowers in full bloom, purple tulips falling, white dandelions flying all over the sky. It seemed that in an instant, the whole sky turned into a sea of ​​flowers.

I don't know what happened, but on the flickering tree-lined path beside the football field, a lot of students suddenly ran over to watch the fun. They came in groups of three or four, talking at once: "Oh my God, I heard that seven or eight people pulled a big truck of fireworks over there tonight."

"Where?"

"It's not inside the school. The school doesn't allow outside trucks to come in. The truck seems to be parked on the road outside the football field, over there, look at the direction, it's in the aisle next to the wall. It must be for some girl in the school to see."

"That's amazing! If I were that girl, I would faint from happiness right now."

"Sister, did you forget to look in the mirror when you went out today?"

Tonight, the campus of No. 1 Middle School in the city, which should have been as quiet as usual, seemed to suddenly become lively in a strange state. Students gathered in groups of three or four on the tree-lined road, and more and more people came to watch the fireworks.

The fireworks in the world touch the hearts of mortals.

There are probably few boys and girls in this world who don't like watching fireworks. The bell for the end of get out of class just rang, and it was break time. In the distant teaching building, in the corridors and windows on every floor, there were students lying down and craning their necks to watch the dazzling fireworks. In the age of youth, who doesn't have a fleeting dream?

At this moment, the fireworks in the sky seem endless.

Huge fireworks continued to rise from the ground, rushing into the sky and turning into meteors.

The sky is bright.

The sky was dark.

Between light and darkness, it is the first sight standing on the green grass.

Like the other students, she stared blankly at the sky, her eyes lost in thought. She didn't know how much time had passed when a familiar voice suddenly came from the front:

"First time meeting you."

When I first saw him, I lowered my head and saw Zhang Yunqi walking towards me from the bright spot under the blooming fireworks.

Behind this young man is a sky full of inverse meteor showers, and in the distance are many students, teachers, and their families watching the fireworks.

When someone lowered his head after stretching his neck, he noticed Zhang Yunqi walking towards him from the edge of the railing where the football field and the main road outside the school intersected. He noticed the cake in his hand and how he walked towards Chu Jian step by step.

"Look! Look! Over there, over there, the fireworks should be set off by Zhang Yunqi, a senior high school student. It turns out that this guy is celebrating his girlfriend's birthday!" I don't know who shouted, but suddenly there was a commotion in the crowd.

These two people are very famous in the school.

In the corridor, the eyes of the students who were looking up at the fireworks were attracted. Some ran over to watch the excitement. More and more people gathered. In the corridors and windows of the teaching buildings in the distance, many heads noticed the commotion on the football field and looked over.

In the flickering light, they looked vaguely at Zhang Yunqi holding the cake in his hands, and at the clear-minded girl standing on the green grass. Countless colorful streams of light penetrated the darkness and sprinkled on her white cotton skirt, making her look so beautiful that it seemed like an unattainable fairy tale.

Perhaps, only a girl like this is worthy of this grand sky full of stars.

The girl has covered her mouth.

In the crowd, she just looked at the boy.

The boy held a cake in his hand, walked up to her step by step under the fireworks and the sky full of reverse meteor showers, and said with a smile: "Happy 18th birthday, Yu."

At this time, I don’t know where the singing came from. The singing was very loud and floated over the football field of No. 1 Middle School in the city: "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, Happy-birthday-to-you, Happy-birthday-to-you..."

Chu Jian covered his mouth tightly: "The clouds are rising..."

Zhang Yunqi smiled and said, "This is not a dream. Look at the sky. There are so many stars wishing you a happy birthday."

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(End of this chapter)