Hu Lai pushed his bicycle into the door of the unit before the first raindrop fell on the ground. Behind him, the rain began to fall, as if someone poured a lot of water from upstairs.
Hu Lai looked back and secretly exclaimed that it was dangerous.
Then he took out the chain lock, passed it through the wheels, and locked the bicycle to the iron railing of the stairs. Then he took out his schoolbag from the basket, carried it on his back, and went upstairs.
He knew that the world had changed in some distant places, but everything in front of him should have remained unchanged. For example, the old community where his home was located had not changed at all.
In the crowded and narrow corridor, he sidestepped the battery car that was being charged, passed the glove cabinet, and walked past the wall covered with small advertisements for sewer access and unlocking doors.
Hu Lai also saw the "murals" he painted on the corridor wall when he was in elementary school.
So he was already very sure that things around him had not changed.
However, he is still a little bit lucky. If something must have changed, he hopes that his father can be changed and no longer oppose him playing football.
This is the only change Hu Lai is happy to see around him.
After climbing to the fourth floor, Hu Lai opened the door with the key and heard the sound of his mother busy in the kitchen. He tentatively asked: "Mom, where is dad?"
If Dad doesn't go to work today, does that mean there's something different about him?
"Isn't your dad working the night shift today? He has left long ago." Mom's voice floated out from the kitchen.
"oh……"
It looks like nothing has changed.
Hu Lai dragged his schoolbag back to his room. The first thing he did was not take out his books to do his homework. Instead, he took out his mobile phone that was kept in the drawer at home, restarted it, and checked the balance in his WeChat coin purse.
Forty-eight yuan and seventy-three cents.
Well, it turns out that it’s not that my account has been hacked, but that the world has changed.
Hu Lai took out the ten yuan given by Fatty Song from his school uniform pocket and spread it on the table.
His total assets are now fifty-eight yuan and seventy-three cents.
He breathed a long sigh of relief.
His life hasn't changed much, which means it won't get worse, and he still has ten dollars more.
Hu Lai felt that he had earned it.
Of course, he would not tell Fatty Song the truth.
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Li Qingqing had already taken a shower, blew her hair, changed into a large white men's T-shirt as pajamas, and sat cross-legged on the bed playing with her mobile phone.
The things she moved in in the afternoon were still piled on the table and the floor, and they were basically not tidied up. Only the bed in the room was tidied up.
There was a knock on the door and my father's voice outside the half-open door: "Go to bed quickly, Qingqing, you have to report to school tomorrow."
"What is my parents' alma mater like?" Li Qingqing asked.
Li Ziqiang, who was standing outside the door, smiled: "Won't you see it tomorrow?"
"Yes."
"Go to bed quickly. Everyone is very tired today. We have to get up early tomorrow. We don't want to be late for the first day of school."
Li Qingqing obediently got into the quilt, revealing only a pair of eyes and looking at his father outside the door: "Good night, Dad."
"Good night Qingqing." Li Ziqiang turned off the light in his daughter's bedroom and closed the door for her.
Amidst the patter of rain outside the window, through a door, the sound of dad's footsteps coming downstairs was distant and unclear.
Li Qingqing opened her eyes wide and looked out the window.
Against the background of the black sky, white raindrops continued to hang down from the eaves, as if hanging a bead curtain on the dark night.
That was the school where my father and mother met...
Li Qingqing was a little nervous and a little longing.
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A modern school gate is reflected in the puddle. The four copper characters "Dongchuan Middle School" above the school gate have been washed and washed by the rain. In the early morning sun, they shine brightly, as if they have been coated with a layer of gold, no longer dim.
A dull look.
The school gate under the four big characters is almost closed, leaving only a small entrance on the far right for people to enter and exit.
The bustling flow of people is the most common sight under the school gate, but not at this moment.
The bell for morning reading had just rang, and the sound of reading could be heard faintly at the gate.
The reflection in the puddle is like a static painting, reflecting every quiet morning in this middle school.
Until one foot swung the water away from the puddle.
The tranquility was broken by rapid footsteps and heavy breathing, like a broken picture in a puddle.
When the broken reflections in the water regrouped, in the slightly shaking picture, a thin figure wearing a Dongchuan Middle School uniform rushed in from the small entrance.
"Which class are you in?" A loud shout rang out from the guard room.
The figure of "Class 1 and 2 of Senior High School" had already run away, and the reply came from afar.
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The morning reading bell has rang for three minutes. There are no people on campus, but the sound of reading can be heard in the teaching building in the distance.
Li Ziqiang strolled through the quiet campus, looking around, and then landed on a four-story L-shaped teaching building. Right next to this building was a six-story building with beautiful glass curtain walls and white
The wall is particularly eye-catching in the sunshine after the rain.
Against the backdrop of the beautiful new teaching building, the short building next to it looks even more filthy.
He lamented: "When I first entered school, this was still a teaching building called the new building... Now it has become an old building."
A white-haired old man next to him laughed and said: "After all, that was already thirty years ago."
"Yes, it's been thirty years... you are about to retire, and my daughter has also become a student of Dongchuan Middle School." Li Ziqiang was a little sad. This life has come back in circles.
When the old principal heard this, he thought of the situation when he saw Li Qingqing just now.
When Li Qingqing was led into his office by Li Ziqiang, the old principal was in a trance, thinking that time had gone back to thirty years ago.
That youthful and energetic face, the tone and manner in which she said "Hello principal" to him with a smile were almost exactly the same as that of the female student thirty years ago.
He suddenly wished that he could really go back thirty years. Thirty years ago he was not the principal, just an ordinary teacher, but he could be thirty years younger. The most important thing is that the girl is still alive...
Seemingly noticing the principal's trance, Li Ziqiang pointed to his daughter with a smile and said in a very proud tone: "Looks like her mother, right?"
The old principal who came back to his senses nodded: "Well, it's not like you."
Li Ziqiang laughed loudly.
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Li Qingqing was wearing the uniform of Dongchuan Middle School, carrying a schoolbag, and followed her class teacher as she walked step by step toward the classroom.
Her eyes were directed through the closed glass window to the building next to her.
Although she had never been to this school before, she could tell at a glance that the dilapidated old building must be where her father and mother had classes.
It was in that corridor that dad and mom met, right?
Dad once said that they were not classmates at first, so what was it like when they first met?
In the corridor between classes, how did they look past so many people and see each other?
When they see each other, will they realize that they will be together in the future?
How many times did they meet before they got together?
The head teacher who was walking in front did not go directly to the front door of the classroom, but quietly stopped at the back door, then stood on tiptoe a little, and looked into the classroom through a small window above the back door of the classroom.
The sound of reading in the classroom remains unchanged, without any change.
Li Qingqing was not in a hurry, and just waited for the homeroom teacher to finish observing. She continued to look at the building next door, full of curiosity.
Just then, she saw a figure hurriedly running past in the open space between the two buildings, and soon slipped into the blind spot of her sight and disappeared.
Oops, I wonder which unlucky guy is late.
Li Qingqing thought.
Then she withdrew her gaze and followed the homeroom teacher who had finished monitoring her to the door with the sign "Grade 1, Grade 2".
When the head teacher's figure appeared at the front door, the sound in the classroom was obviously quieter, and many students looked up at the head teacher standing at the door.
With everyone watching, the head teacher first nodded to the English teacher in the classroom, then walked into the classroom, stepped onto the podium, and looked at the dozens of students below.
The middle-aged female teacher didn't say a word, she just glanced with a serious look, and all the sounds in the classroom disappeared, including the normal sound of reading.
"Everyone, please pause for a moment. There is a new student in our class transferring here today."
After saying that, she waved to Li Qingqing who was standing outside the door: "Come in."
The curious students couldn't wait to cast their eyes over.
They saw the door go dark, and a tall figure was outlined in shadow in the morning light.
The girl with a ponytail walked briskly up to the podium, then stood next to her class teacher with her hands behind her back and a smile on her face.
The sunlight slanted in from outside the door and hit the side of her face. The fine hair on her face was illuminated by the sunlight, adding a golden edge to her outline. Her long eyelashes were trembling slightly, as if a breeze was passing by in the classroom.
In the early morning sunshine, a little deer jumped out of the bushes and jumped into the hearts of all the boys present.
Someone sighed softly: "Oh..."
Some girls looked at Luo Kai nervously and found that Luo Kai was also staring blankly at the new classmates on the podium... They were heartbroken.
"This is the newly transferred classmate Li Qingqing to our class." The head teacher pointed at Li Qingqing and said, "Student Li Qingqing, please say hello to everyone."
All the boys unconsciously straightened their upper bodies, raised their heads, and tried to make their appearance look better and more handsome.
Even Song Jiajia was no exception. He transformed from a football lying on the table to a standing football.
Under everyone's gaze, Li Qingqing still kept smiling, and she lightly opened her red lips: "Everyone..."
A burst of hurried footsteps interrupted her next words. The thump-dong-dong sound reflected back and forth in the closed corridor and became extremely loud, attracting everyone's attention. Some people turned to look at the classroom.
Outside, some people cast their eyes on the empty seat next to Song Jiajia.
"Report!!" A figure appeared at the front door of the classroom. His hand grabbed the door frame to prevent himself from being thrown out.
Li Qingqing was suddenly no longer the focus of the scene, but the panting figure at the door.
Even Li Qingqing looked over curiously and it turned out that the unlucky guy was her classmate...
It was a thin and embarrassed figure, with sweat dripping from his temples and down his cheeks. Although he called for check-in, at this moment, he was leaning on the door frame with his hands on his knees, completely ignoring the head teacher's murderous words.
His eyes were buried in his head, breathing heavily.
Then Li Qingqing heard the head teacher next to him gritting his teeth: "Hu Lai! Go to the playground and run three laps for me!"
There was a burst of gloating laughter in the classroom.
"Oh, okay..." Amidst laughter, the boy agreed simply and then raised his head.
Li Qingqing saw clearly the face of this unlucky guy who was late, and was stunned for a moment. Wasn't this the guy who was holding a Frisbee in the open space downstairs at home yesterday... wasn't he the guy who played football?
The boy seemed to have noticed Li Qingqing's doubtful gaze. He also glanced curiously at the figure standing next to the head teacher, then turned around and ran towards the corridor. The sound of "dong dong dong" footsteps sounded again in the corridor.
After the footsteps disappeared, the head teacher motioned to Li Qingqing to say hello again.
This time no one bothered her anymore. Li Qingqing smiled and greeted the whole class: "Hello everyone, my name is Li Qingqing. I am transferring to Dongchuan Middle School from today. I like football. I hope I can spend three years here with you all.
good time."
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ps, thank you to the two new alliance leaders [King Mumu] and [God Blessed Water]!
Tianyou Shui is my old ally in many books, and King Mumu is also the ally in the previous book Greenery and Majestic. It’s really nice to see you in the new book!