Chapter 6: The Boy Who Sleeps in Hundred Flowers
Su Li was unhappy that she was sitting at the same table with a student who had repeated a grade. She could only hope that the teacher would rearrange the seats quickly.
The third class was a math class. The teacher looked less than thirty years old. He wore black-rimmed glasses and a white shirt with his sleeves rolled up halfway. He stood on the podium and kept smiling, "Everyone used to call me
Teacher Lemon, we won’t be in class for this period, just chat casually and get to know each other first.”
The atmosphere in the classroom suddenly relaxed from the stiffness of the previous two classes, and the students all had a good impression of this approachable teacher.
Teacher Lemon smiled and asked, "So, what do you want to talk about?"
"Teacher." A boy stood up first, "Tell me your nickname."
"This..." Teacher Lemon scratched her head and smiled stupidly. The students below became bolder and started cheering, "Teacher, please tell me."
"Actually, it's nothing. At that time, the teacher had just graduated from the normal school and was very nervous on the first day of class. As a result, he forgot to have breakfast that morning. When he got to school, he was hungry and ate three lemons. As soon as he walked into the classroom, his classmates all shouted
, 'It tastes so sour', that's what they called me from that time on." Teacher Lemon couldn't help laughing after she finished speaking, and then asked, "What about you, what are your nicknames?"
"When I was in elementary school, everyone called me Balu. At that time, I always skipped classes and fought guerrillas with the teacher." A boy stood up and said, and the classmates all laughed.
"My previous nickname was Baozi because I was fat at that time."
"My nickname is Niangniang, because everyone thinks I'm fierce." Students kept standing up and saying their nicknames, and the atmosphere was very lively.
Su Li looked at them quietly. She also had many nicknames, but they were unpleasant nicknames. However, a male classmate in front turned back to her and asked, "This classmate, do you also have a nickname?"
Su Li's face immediately turned red and she shook her head, "I didn't."
Zhou Qi changed his sleeping position and muttered, "It's so boring."
After the students all finished naming their nicknames, Teacher Lemon said, "Good nicknames can bring us good things, but malicious nicknames should not be used." Next, he also talked with the students about celebrity idols, animation, and microblogs.
Popular topics such as gambling...
We continued chatting until the end of get out of class. When the teacher left, the students were very sad to leave.
※ ※ ※ ※
The first day of class ended quickly, and all the teachers were met. Except for the head teacher and Teacher Lemon, who left a deep impression on Su Li, the rest of the teachers were very ordinary.
After school, Su Li was not in a hurry to go home. Her father usually didn't get home from get off work until 7 o'clock, so she could take advantage of this free time to "do whatever she wanted".
She walked aimlessly towards an alley, and as she walked she reached the vegetable market.
At this time, the vegetable market was crowded, with all kinds of people shuttling in front of various stalls, selling fish, vegetables, and pork. Various sounds and smells intertwined into the air, filling the air with the excitement of human fireworks.
After Su Li entered the vegetable market, she followed the crowds of people. After leaving the vegetable market, she came to a shop selling steamed buns. It looked like it was newly opened. There was a brand new poster with the word "Breakfast" on it. I don't know.
Why is it still open in the evening?
She thought, maybe it was not sold out in the morning?
The bun seller was a woman who looked to be in her forties. Her crow's feet were obvious when she smiled, but her charm was still there. When she saw Su Li, she opened the steamer lid enthusiastically and asked, "How many do you want?"
Su Li didn't want to buy it at all, and she had to admire her for asking "how many do you want" instead of "do you want buns?"
"Two." She said and took out the money from the pocket of her schoolbag.
The woman opened the steamer and quickly picked up two of them and put them into the bag. Su Li stood there and looked inside. There were two tables and chairs in the store. On one of them was a light cyan transparent glass with a glass in it.
The white plastic flowers make the whole store clean and bright.
"Do you want anything else?" the woman asked with a smile.
"No." Su Li tried her best to smile and shook her head at the woman, then hurriedly left with the bun in hand.
While eating steamed buns, I walked to a quiet-looking alley, and the smell of earth and moss hit my nostrils.
This alley looks very deep, the walls on both sides are covered with green vegetation, and there are beautiful bluestone slabs under the feet.
Su Li hesitated for a while, then walked in. After walking in, she felt as if she had traveled through time and space and returned to the ancient times. It was very strange.
When she reached the end of the alley, she almost forgot to breathe when she looked at the beautiful scenery in front of her.
In front of her, there was a patchwork of flowers. They were in full bloom, colorful and beautiful.
Some of the flowers are planted in wooden barrels, some in flowerpots hanging from the eaves, and some in hollowed-out wooden stakes placed on the windowsill...
Seeing such a prosperous scene in the bleak autumn season was like walking into a dream. Su Li's heart skipped a beat and she was completely stunned.
It was so beautiful that she was intoxicated by it. She squatted down to appreciate each flower more closely, from the petals to the center to the stem.
The wind blows, bringing a light fragrance, which is intoxicating.
There was such tranquility in the irritating big city, which really made people forget to leave. She squatted there for a long time, and suddenly she saw a boy through the shadows of flowers and butterflies.
The boy was wearing a stylish white T-shirt and light blue jeans. He was sleeping on the floor behind the flowers. His head was resting on his hands, and his long eyelashes were projected on his clean face, changing shapes with his even breathing.
The breeze blew, petals fell on his eyebrows, and butterflies danced around him.
Su Li stood up and saw a black schoolbag at the boy's feet, with a string of copper coin pendants hanging on the schoolbag.
"The sky is blue and waiting for misty rain..." Su Li's cell phone rang at an inappropriate time. She was startled and hurriedly turned around and fled.
After walking a few steps, Su Li looked back and saw the boy sitting up, yawning, and looking unhappy at being disturbed.
She said to him in her heart, "I'm sorry." She walked forward quickly and answered the phone.
Dad asked over there, "Why haven't you come back yet?"
"I just left school." She lied, "I'll be back soon." She hung up the phone hurriedly.
After leaving the alley, it was getting late, the street lights were turning on one after another, and cars were coming and going on the highway. Su Li quickened her pace and walked forward.
The woman selling steamed buns was washing the steamer with her head down, and a little boy stood beside her, playing with a piece of plasticine in his hand.
Walking to the stop sign, Su Li patiently waited for the No. 7 bus. It was already half past seven when she got home.
Dad had a fierce look on his face, "What's going on? Are you being detained by the teacher?"
"No, I'm on duty." She lowered her head and replied.
"It's your turn on the first day?" Dad looked disbelieving.
"Well...I'll sit in the front row." A lie requires countless lies to cover up. Su Li suddenly regretted lying just now, but she could no longer take back what she said.
Forget it, it wasn't that malicious anyway, she put her schoolbag on the sofa, and the little steamed bun followed her into the kitchen.
She turned on the gas stove and heated up the cold dry rice, cold braised pork, cold vegetables and clear soup one by one, and then ate them with her father.
"How's it going? How are you at school today?"
"It's okay." She always answered her father's questions simply and without being verbose.
"Well, study hard and find a more relaxed job in the future."
"OK."
"Make more friends with excellent classmates."
"good."
"If you encounter something you don't understand, ask the teacher for advice. Don't be afraid."
"Um."
After the meal was finished in a slightly dull atmosphere, she washed the dishes, cleared the table, and then went upstairs to take a shower.
On the first floor, my father was watching TV. On the screen, two or three people were running away without their armor, and a group of people behind them were carrying swords and guns to kill them all.
Su Li had no interest in this type of TV series, so she took her schoolbag and went upstairs. Lying down in front of the desk, her mind suddenly jumped out to the beautiful scene of a hundred flowers blooming and the boy sleeping peacefully behind the flowers.
Chapter completed!