On the day of the class reunion, Zhou Yan still got up very early, finished working in his uncle's shop, had breakfast, and then ran to Ruiyang and picked up Qin Ruoshu.
The agreed "joint location" is located near the new campus of Dongyang No. 1 Middle School Development Zone.
The two went out at around eight o'clock and took the bus around most of the city. When they arrived, they found that no one else had arrived yet.
"Aren't these old classmates too lazy?"
"Boss," Zhou Yan couldn't help but smile bitterly, "if I set out from our house at six o'clock in the morning, I would still be in the old city area now!"
"How about we go around the school first? Speaking of which, I will come to the campus in the development zone at once!"
"Me too……"
As soon as the two of them reached the school gate, Zhou Yan's cell phone rang suddenly.
"Hey, smelly fish, where are you?"
"Almost there? Oh, let me wait for you. We are now at the school gate..."
After hanging up the phone, he smiled helplessly at Qin Ruoshu who was waiting aside: "Wait for Yu Zhifei and the others first!"
Two or three minutes later, a bus stopped at the bus stop across the road. After the bus left, four students-looking people were left on the platform. Zhou Yan’s old classmate and roommate in high school, Chang Ning,
Zhao Yang, Yu Zhifei, Ying Bo, Ye Lei and Liu Peng.
"Stinky fish, this way!"
Zhou Yan's voice could be regarded as attracting the wolf. When six old classmates came closer, they punched and kicked Zhou Yan.
If it weren't for Qin Ruoshu watching from the side, the six animals would have almost carried Zhou Yan to the side of the road, letting him enjoy the joy of hugging a telegraph pole with all his limbs.
During the fight, Ying Bo accidentally rubbed off Zhou Yan's glasses. After picking them up, he found that his glasses seemed to be flat.
Ying Bo was not sure, so he tried it on with his glasses: "Lao Zhou, are your myopia better?"
“I found a solution online and exercised for a year, and my degree is almost cleared!”
"If you're not short-sighted, why are you wearing glasses?" Yu Zhifei took the opportunity to scorn Zhou Yan severely.
"How can you pretend to be a cultured person if you don't wear glasses?" Zhou Yan took the glasses from Ying Bo and put them on, and smiled at his girlfriend who was watching the excitement, "Just now we just wanted to go around the new campus, let's go together now?"
The six people struggled for a while: "We were going to the beach just now?"
Zhou Yan had no choice but to turn around and ask his girlfriend for her opinion.
"Then let's go to the beach. It's just to kill time anyway..."
The new school in Dongyang No. 1 Middle School Development Zone is only a few hundred meters away from the seaside. Although the seaside terrain here is relatively flat, it is not suitable as a bathing beach because it contains less sand and more mud.
And more mud means another thing, it is suitable for catching the sea. And coincidentally, it is around the 15th day of the lunar calendar, and the tide is receding.
Therefore, when a group of people arrived, they saw a beach that had been dug into holes.
However, fortunately, these days, live streaming is not popular, and there are no big products that can "bury yourself and dig it yourself".
On the beaches that have been combed by the sea-driving army, there are still "seafood" residues: starfish, large and small, are lying on the beach, telling the story of "the injustice of heaven"...
Zhou Yan has lived in Hongzhou, the provincial capital, for many years, and has also eaten seafood feasts. Among those seafood feasts, the most photographed seafood is starfish: the red shell after being cooked, coupled with a very pleasing appearance
, no matter how you look at it, it looks like high-end goods...
"Oh, Lao Zhou..." Yu Zhifei gently nudged Zhou Yan with his elbow and asked in a low voice, "Don't tell me that you are staying at the house of Miss Qin and her family!"
Zhou Yan rolled his eyes and glanced at his friends who had pricked up their ears: "I do, but it's a pity..."
"That……"
"There is a small restaurant not far from Ruiyang..."
Yu Zhifei on the side suddenly widened his eyes: "Don't tell me that you are related to Li Yulin?"
"My brother-in-law!"
"Damn it, you beast, you didn't tell me earlier," Yu Zhifei was very annoyed, "Our family often eats at your uncle's shop. Oh no, why didn't I see you..."
Qin Ruoshu, who was squatting on the beach and bending down to pick up small conch shells, suddenly raised his head and smiled: "Lao Zhou is in charge of the spoons in the store!"
"Old Zhou, I didn't expect that you have such a skill, you really can't tell a person's face..."
The six of them walked far away along the messy beach. They only returned the long way back when they found out that the two people left in the dormitory had the phones.
After walking around for a while, we returned to the agreed place. Many people had gathered there.
When he was filling in his application for the college entrance examination last year, Zhou Yan was so busy with his culinary career that after adjusting his application, he left hastily, without even thinking about his high school classmates whom he reunited with after a long absence.
A familiar face, a familiar smile.
When we meet again, the joy, anger, sorrow, and joy of the past have turned into infinite sadness.
"Hey, Zhou Yan is here. The food in the northwest is pretty good. It's only been over a year and he's grown so much!"
"Can I grow taller if I eat beef and mutton every day?"
The northwest is full of prairie. People in the northwest have three meals a day, except milk, which is beef and mutton. Students in the northwest take exams on horseback riding and archery...
Zhou Yan was speechless, but he didn't want to expose his old classmates' fantasies about the barren land, so he just smiled.
Compared with the gentle and reserved men, the female students in the class are undoubtedly much more bold and unrestrained: when old friends meet again, they hug each other, laugh and chatter; when they encounter happy things, they jump around together, which looks very childish...
A few minutes later, Lao Ding, the head teacher, arrived.
"Laoban!"
"Teacher Ding!"
Lao Ding, dressed in formal attire, walked into the group of students with a smile, greeted his disciples with a smile, and patted the students on the shoulders.
"Hey, Zhou Yan is here too!"
"Hello teacher!"
After walking around in the crowd, Lao Ding checked the time and looked up at Chen Wei, the organizer of the event: "Chen Wei, how many people are still here?"
Chen Wei stood on tiptoe and counted.
"Everyone who can come is here!"
"It's such a hot summer day. It's not cool to stand on the road. Let's find a place to sit down and chat..."
Then, Lao Ding led a large group of troops and rushed to a fisherman's house near the school.
The owner of Yujiale was so happy when he saw Lao Ding bringing such a large group of students, that he directly arranged a "super luxury private room" in a private house that was connected to the room.
While the store owner was preparing food, Lao Ding quietly walked to Zhou Yan and sat down.
"That party at the end of the year, I heard you haven't had a holiday yet?"
Zhou Yan nodded: "School started in October last year, and the holidays are almost the twentieth of the twelfth lunar month."
"Oh," Lao Ding nodded, "How do you feel after working for a year? Do you feel a little regretful?"
"It's not bad," Zhou Yan smiled, "If you give it a try, it's possible to do better in the exam if you repeat it for a year, but there are some things that you can't get back if you miss them..."
"Yes," Lao Ding sighed and nodded thoughtfully, "Do you have any plans to take the postgraduate entrance examination?"
"Preparing, Capital University of Aeronautics and Astronautics."
"This..." Lao Ding frowned, "A similar major to Shoufang is aerospace engines, right?"
Zhou Yan nodded: "Relevant courses have already been started by self-study."
"That's good!" Lao Ding patted Zhou Yan's shoulder with joy, "I thought you..."
"You've suffered a major blow and you've been unable to recover, right?" Zhou Yan laughed at himself, "After entering the second school, I have regained some confidence!"
"You..." Old Ding smiled and shook his head, then turned and headed to the next table.