Chapter 418 Your Me (Subscribe for monthly tickets)
This is the fifth month of the lunar calendar.

A season called midsummer.

When I first met her, I was sitting in a window seat in a classroom on the third floor of the first teaching building. The sun was shining brightly at that time, and the light shone through the leaves of the camphor tree outside the window onto her homework book. The branches were swaying, and spots of light flickered.

After lunch break, cicadas began to call in the trees, "Hiss~Hiss~Hiss~". The fan in the classroom swayed left and right, and when it turned to a certain angle, it would make a buzzing sound. However, the ceiling fan above the head could not blow away the scorching heat in May. At this time, the students on duty fetched a few buckets of water and sprinkled them in the classroom, which seemed to have a sense of anxiety.

Many years later, Chu Jian still remembers the summer of 1995. In addition to the endless test papers, there was also the smell of dust mixed with water, and an English song playing in the walkman:
When I was a little girl
I asked my mother
What will I become in the future?
Will it be beautiful?
Will you be rich?
she said to me
Nothing in the world can be forced
let it go

We cannot predict the future
……

Snap!
The pen Zhang Yunqi gave me fell to the ground.

When I first leaned aside to pick up the pen, I saw that there were more than ten empty seats in the classroom.

When I first met them, I suddenly realized that many people have left our lives without us noticing, and we don’t even have the chance to say hello or goodbye.

I remember reading a magazine when I first met you, saying that every time we leave, it is for a better reunion next time. However, life experience has always told me that most of the time in life, we meet sometimes but never meet again.

The day Wang Xiaokai left No. 1 Middle School, he left with a smile. Early in the morning, he packed his bag, rolled up his bedding, dressed neatly, went to the classroom to say goodbye to his classmates, and then went to No. 1 Hospital to kowtow three times to Wang Mingzhen, who was lying on the bed with an oxygen tube hanging on his head. In the end, this young man completely left the lives of most people.

In this midsummer month of May, how many young people are packing their bags to head to the next battlefield of life? Or are they looking up at the blue sky through a small window in confusion amidst a mountain of books and questions?

Zhang Yunqi is not confused.

His study status has been very good recently.

Eliminating the clutter in life, going through the confusion of youth, and finding the important things that should be done at the moment and can be done down to earth. This may be the biggest difference between him and his peers.

Of course, at this time all high school students know what is the most important thing at the moment, but most of them are only obsessed with what they want and what they can get.

Between wanting and getting, there is something else that needs to be done.

At Jiangchuan No. 156 Middle School, the decades-long feud between former principal Wang Daozhong and Class head teacher Wang Mingzhen has been the hottest topic recently.

After mid-June of the Gregorian calendar, it was confirmed that Wang Daozhong had accepted bribes. As for the exact amount, no one knew. Some said it was several million, while others exaggeratedly said it was nearly 10 million. The only thing that was certain was that Wang Daozhong, his wife, who was the deputy director, and his daughter were all taken into custody, and their fate of being imprisoned was inevitable.

The anecdote of Wang Daozhong cursing at Zhang Yunqi when he was taken away from the office spread far and wide in the No. 1 Middle School. Everyone in the school knew that Wang Daozhong was sent in by Zhang Yunqi to operate a sewing machine.

For a time, Zhang Yunqi's reputation in the school reached its peak.

He became the first student to defeat the principal of Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School, a century-old prestigious school.

This reputation is not good, especially when Wang Daozhong was taken away and cursed Zhang Yunqi as a shameless person, a scum and a hooligan! Coincidentally, on the first day of Zhang Yunqi's entry into the No. 1 Middle School, he set a goal for the three years of high school: to be an excellent hooligan. As the former principal, Wang Daozhong gave him an official seal of certification on the last day of his term.

The title is not useless.

In the last two months before the college entrance examination, when Zhang Yunqi was in school, his leaders were afraid of him, his teachers were terrified of him, his younger classmates who were influenced by "Young and Dangerous" every day admired him, and his younger classmates who were deeply influenced by Qiong Yao's dramas often gave him stars with their eyes on the street.

From this we can see that gangsters also have a large market.

Of course, money is more powerful. Now when people in Jiangchuan City talk about No. 1 Middle School, they often add a prefix in front of the school: the school where the richest man in our city studied!
Zhang Yunqi himself didn't know how he suddenly became the richest man in Jiangchuan City.

He also doesn't know how much money he has, how much his assets are worth, or how much his shares are worth.

Of course, his Lianzhong company, which specializes in distribution channels in central China, has made a lot of money for him by relying on the popular Little Overlord series of electronic products in recent years, and the dividends are continuous. The Liansheng Group, which started out by producing and selling canned products, has now gradually grown into a behemoth involved in food sales, agricultural operations, rural asset management, agricultural finance and other fields, with very stable revenue and greater potential.

The college entrance examination is approaching.

The final round of preparation is very intense.

All the students were like wildebeests being chased by lions, running helplessly towards a river called College Entrance Examination.

With his successful career, Zhang Yunqi naturally did not feel too much pressure about taking the college entrance examination.

To be realistic, in the 90s, with Zhang Yunqi's current identity and status in society, and his age, as long as his grades were slightly acceptable, most good universities would be willing to admit him as an exception.

Scores are not important to him.

But high school and the college entrance examination were his first journey after all, the first experience in his life, so he naturally wanted to experience it well.

Three years ago, he came to Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School as a cheap top scorer in the high school entrance examination. For a long time, he was synonymous with lack of interest in study, greed for small profits and materialism. In this last period of time, he also wanted to try out how good he was as a top scorer in the high school entrance examination, to find his student self in his previous life, to be focused and pure, and then work hard. Maybe he could even realize his dream and become famous.

Of course, he couldn't be as cruel to himself as he was as a student in his previous life.

In his previous life, his family was so poor that he suffered from mental dissociation. In order to escape from the mountains, he seemed to have completely detached himself from the secular world. He was low-key, forbearing and tenacious in his studies. Every day, he could be seen reading on the playground in the early morning, in the hot classroom in the afternoon, and in the toilet after lights out, frantically memorizing every point of knowledge, just like a nymphomaniac who would not let go of any type of woman.

It is impossible for me to do that now. There is no need to do that either.

But at least we can escape from the temporary things and the pleasures of life.

In midsummer May, he got up at five o'clock every day, went to school with Chu Jian and Ji Ling, and started studying Chinese, mathematics, English, history and politics.

He had never been to high school in his previous life, but he was always able to master things when it came to studying. His grades were not bad back then, and they are still good now. He is not arrogant or impatient, and is always calm inside and down-to-earth, quietly working hard to take root in the ground.

If he encounters a question he doesn't know how to answer, Chu Jian will give him the answer.

Unlike other senior high school students, the closer it gets to the college entrance examination, the more time she has. She no longer needs to spend too much time studying. She has already mastered the knowledge learned in the three years of high school. She is among the top two in the grade in all seven subjects, and there are very few questions that can stump her.

Chu Jian only had to review her textbooks and do the final questions every day. She often explained the questions to her classmates in the rest of the time. This girl was always polite and attentive, and was happy to help her classmates with their homework.

In the afternoon of a day, the sun is warm.

There were only Zhang Yunqi and Chu Jian in the classroom.

Chu Jian was wearing a white cotton skirt, a ponytail, sneakers, and white socks. She was sitting next to him helping him with his math homework. The setting sun was shining on the desk, and the ivy outside the window was hanging down. The midsummer evening was particularly peaceful.

Zhang Yunqi has a good comprehension ability in learning.

There was a math problem that he didn't know how to solve, but after Chu Jian explained it to him once, he understood it. In the following time, he was busy finishing the test paper. Chu Jian sat in his seat, wearing earplugs, looking out the window, and his clear eyes gradually became dazed.

Zhang Yunqi finished the test paper and asked, "What are you thinking about?"

Chu Jian withdrew his gaze from the window, took off his earplugs, and said, "I suddenly remembered that everyone will be separated when they go to college. We may only see each other during the summer vacation, or we may not see each other for a long time. Many good friends slowly forget each other in this way."

When he said this, there was sadness in Chu Jian's eyes.

Zhang Yunqi sat beside her and looked into her eyes. After a moment, he said, "I'm suddenly a little scared of you."

When I first saw it, I was startled, pursed my lips and whispered: "Why?"

Zhang Yunqi lowered his head and kissed her cheek, smiling: "Like is fear, love means losing power."

The clear little face turned red when I first saw her.

She glanced at the corridor outside the classroom, then tilted her head and buried her cheek in Zhang Yunqi's arms.

Zhang Yunqi said: "You won't ride a bicycle later?"

When I first saw her, I looked up and smiled: "What are you going to do now?"

Zhang Yunqi said with a smile: "Take my silly wife Jiangchuan for a night trip."

She blushed when we first met, but after a while, she pursed her lips and said yes.

After packing their schoolbags, they went downstairs together to push out their bicycles.

At that time, the streets and alleys of Jiangchuan City were planted with camphor trees. In the summer, the trees were green and lush, and the cicadas were chirping. In the dark night, black and white TVs were playing football games. Occasionally, a girl in a red skirt could be seen in the corridor. Zhang Yunqi rode the bicycle he had just met and made his way through the crowds of people on a midsummer night in 1995.

Zhang Yunqi smiled and said to the girl behind him while pedaling his bicycle: "Although I really want to tell you that if you are afraid of forgetting in the future, remember more of the people and things you want to remember, but now that I think about it, it doesn't really matter."

“Why isn’t it important?”

"Because what can be forgotten is unimportant, but what is taken to heart is unforgettable. For example..."

"Like what?"

"Like your me."

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Pls. These two chapters are a bit light, most of them are about concluding the entire high school plot, laying the groundwork for the subsequent plot, giving an ending to characters who are unlikely to appear in the future, and brewing the next wave of plots.

The most important thing in the story is the soul, that is, God, or the only core theme that runs through a novel of millions of words. What is the theme of this book? I say it is boring, you can feel it for yourself.

The second thing is the control of rhythm. If the emotions are aroused in the previous few chapters, the emotions must be eased in these few chapters before the next wave can start.

The next wave is the college entrance examination.

I will write very capriciously.

(End of this chapter)