The intimate and tacit silence is actually the most pleasant thing in the world, but this time, Ju Nian's silence is uneasy.

On the day the final exam results came out, Ju Nian went to the playground to look at the honor list. Only the top ten were announced in each grade. There were many students squeezing in front of the bulletin board. Ju Nian waited for a while before filling a vacant space. There were eight classes in the first 7th Middle School and more than 400 students. She was almost shortlisted, and she was in the tenth place either up or down.

Ju Nian is unfamiliar with things like honor lists. She is used to silent and unknown, just like a drop of water is safely hidden in the ocean. Therefore, when she saw the huge word "Xie Ju Nian" on the big red paper, she couldn't help but feel a strange feeling. Of course, she was a student after all, and it was always a blessing to do well in the exam. So when the classmates she met either envious or surprised to say to her, "Okay, Xie Ju Nian is in the top ten in the grade", she smiled shyly and humbly.

When Han Shu and several of his classmates also came over, Ju Nian felt that it was time for him to retreat. If you can't afford to offend, can't you still afford to hide?

Han Shu's performance is said to be good, but this time he is not among the top ten. Perhaps too many hobbies have distracted him to some extent.

"Oh, Han Shu, you are only one point away from the tenth place." Ju Nian heard a girl who looked like a classmate of Han Shu and said regretfully.

Han Shu smiled at the girl, and said nothing, and looked at the name on the list with concentration. Perhaps the gaze of his eyes accidentally glanced at Ju Nian who was about to leave. He glanced at her and pretended not to see anything.

Zhou Liang stood on tiptoe and hugged Han Shu's shoulder: "If you rank further down the list, you will be the eleventh one. And in our class, you will also be in the top three, which is amazing."

Han Shu moved his shoulders and took off Zhou Liang's arm, and said indifferently: "What awesome? Our old man said that he had never made the top three exams since he was a child, and my sister probably wasn't much worse. I am the first unworthy descendant of the Han family to fall out of the top ten. When I go back, I'll wait to get rid of it."

As he said, he glanced at Ju Nian again intentionally or unintentionally. The look made Ju Nian feel that she had become a sinner who promoted domestic violence. She seemed to have heard from her parents' chat that President Han, who seemed gentle and elegant, was extremely strict in educating his children. Compared with the dean's wife's spoiling for her baby son, he believed in the idea of ​​filial son under the stick, and he was quite ruthless in his hands. Usually, he "educated" his son with heartache, and the wife was trying to block it. The whole building could be heard, but no one could say anything in the morning.

Han Shu wore a red sports jacket today, which was extremely sexy, but she looked quite refreshing and pleasing to him. He was such a person. When he had to wear a school uniform, he was the one who was dressed the most neatly. If he could not wear a school uniform, he would seize every possible opportunity and not wear it. Ju Nian imagined Han Shu like this, and was slapped by Dean Han with a whip, and he felt a little unkind.

"If you want me to tell me, it's also unlucky. Look, if the tenth person fills in a multiple-choice question wrong, this name should be yours." Li Zhihe also saw Ju Nian and fanned the flames.

Han Shu disagreed: "What are you talking about?"

Ju Nian had successfully escaped. She thought that this time Han Shu was still reasonable and the political textbook was right. We should look at problems objectively and comprehensively, and maybe the same is true for people.

Unexpectedly, Han Shu quickly subverted her views with her actions.

Ju Nian rode a bicycle home. Her bike was the "Phoenix Brand" she bought when her parents got married. It was probably a good thing back then, but now it is safe even if she forgets to lock it. Ju Nian is not tall, but the seat of the bike is very high, and it is a bit difficult to pedal. The worst thing is that there is something wrong with the wheels. It sounds like a clang when they turn. However, she is so swaying every day, and she is already quite numb to this phenomenon.

It has been a long time since I left school, and Ju Nian heard a clanging sound from the rhythmic sound of a person.

"How much does a pound of waste paper cost?"

The man who caught up on a bicycle was dazzling in red.

Ju Nian understood that Han Shu was mocking her for being like a rag.

She didn't say anything, and she buried her head and tried hard to pedal her classic car, but Han Shu's car was much faster than her. Ju Nian felt that her car was almost free from gravity, and Han Shu was still following her like a shadow.

"I ask you, what else can you do besides studying? It is because of nerds like you who know nothing except reading. You can be a boring thing like ranking. You can be said to be high and low."

It turns out that some people regard her as the venting target and scapegoat of dissatisfaction with the education system. Ju Nian decided to overturn the view of "seeing problems in a comprehensive, objective, and developmental manner". The book said that phenomena are ever-changing, but the essence of things will not change. He was magnanimous in front of others before, so he pretended! He hated her in his stomach.

"Xie Juinian, what else do you know besides studying?"

The desperate effort of Ju Nian pedaling bikes had already made her sweat in the winter. She couldn't figure out why Han Shu still had the energy to speak endlessly.

Finally, she felt that she couldn't stand it anymore. If she stomped like this, she would sooner or later die.

"The intersection of your house has passed... has passed." Ju Nian said gasping, "What are you doing with me?"

"Did your home repair the road?"

"Okay, stop following, I will tell you all..."

"What do you tell me?" Han Shu simply walked forward with Ju Nian's car. He was a little curious and didn't know what she was going to tell him.

"Waste paper...30 cents per pound." After Ju Nian finished speaking, she found that Han Shu had finally disappeared beside her.

Han Shu parked his bicycle next to the sidewalk with his feet.

"Bored! Xie Juinian, I have never seen a boring person like you!"

The winter vacation was just one week before the Spring Festival. Of course, we had to visit relatives during the Spring Festival, so after moving back to live with parents, Ju Nian followed the adults to pay New Year's greetings with her aunt's house for the first time.

As usual, my parents asked Ju Nian to express their gratitude to my aunt and uncle for the care of her for years, but they didn't expect Ju Nian to say anything beautiful. Most of the time, Ju Nian just had to agree. Finally, when my aunt said that it was rare to celebrate the festival, and the staff were all together, it was better to "touch them" together for a few adults. Ju Nian sat next to her and watched TV for a while. Her younger brother fell asleep and was put into the bed in the small room. Seeing that no one noticed her, she sneaked out and walked to Wu Yu's house in a familiar way.

Wu Yu's family has no particularly close relatives. According to Wu Yu's words, even relatives will retreat from their family's situation. Therefore, even though it is the second day of the Lunar New Year, there is no need to worry that he will not be at home when he visits relatives.

After knocking on the door for a long time, Wu Yu's grandmother came to open the door tremblingly. She was old and her body and mind were already in a mess. When she saw Ju Nian, she seemed to recognize him, but she seemed to be unable to recognize him. Ju Nian helped her walk into the house, and it took a lot of time to realize that Wu Yu was not at home.

Ju Nian took out a candy hidden in his pocket in the morning and handed it to his grandmother. The old man in his seventies almost lost all his teeth, and he happily looked like a child with candy in his mouth. Ju Nian talked to the old man for a while, but he was talking about his own words anyway. He couldn't understand each other's meaning, so he just talked nonsense. Later, the old man's attention turned to the 14-inch black and white TV at home.

Ju Nian walked out and stood in the small yard of Wu Yu's family. If someone didn't believe that there was a corner in this city that was forgotten by the festive atmosphere, then come here to take a look. But she looked at the crooked potted plants and the loquat tree that only lived in the yard, and suddenly she hoped that no one would disturb this corner forever.

In the middle of winter, there is no snow in the south, only rainy and rainy. Her hands and feet are dull, and she takes a hard breath. There is a cold and spicy feeling in her throat and heart and lungs. It is extremely clear and clear. Ju Nian likes such winter. She waited for more than an hour, but Wu Yu still didn't come back, but she was not very anxious. Instead of going back to watch adults play mahjong, she prefers to move a short stool at the door to watch Wu Yu's yard and Ju Nian loquat trees. There are many kinds of waiting, which makes people happy.

It should be very lively outside, with laughter and firecrackers coming from time to time. From afar, the rustling sound of the elderly watching TV in the room with the rustling sound of the old man watching TV was a vague and timeless meaning, just like the music in an old record player. The leaves of the loquat tree fell and fell on the mud, with a subtle bang. At this moment, Ju Nian heard Wu Yu's footsteps.

She smiled and opened the yard door for him.

Not only Wu Yu stood outside, but also a few boys dressed in strange clothes. Some looked the same age as Wu Yu, one or two older, holding either the loud detonator or cigarettes in their hands.

Ju Nian didn't expect someone else to stand there at a loss, holding her hand against the wall beside the door.

"Hehe, Wu Yu, there are still girls hidden in your house." Someone reported it, pushing Wu Yu and laughing, and several other pairs of eyes greeted Ju Nian without any concealment. Wu Yu took a step forward, turned his back to Ju Nian, which just blocked her.

"What are you talking about? This is our relative." He said with a smile.

"Then we will also visit your house for relatives and visits?"

"Let's go somewhere else. My family is here, and I'll find you next time." Wu Yu closed the courtyard door in front of a few people, waiting for the voices of the words to fade away before walking back into the house with Ju Nian.

Before entering the door, Ju Nian noticed that there was a cigarette on Wu Yu's right hand, which was lit and a faint smoke floated up.

Ju Nian looked at Wu Yu for a while, and then looked at the smoke in his hand. Wu Yu did not move, and she didn't say anything. She just leaned over and took the whole cigarette out of his hand, sat on the small stool before, and silently put out the fire in the mud.

Wu Yu seemed to laugh and sat on the wooden threshold.

“How long have you been here?”

“It didn’t take long.”

When they were together day and night, they didn't say anything. They often sat quietly, doing or thinking about their own things. The intimate and tacit silence is actually the most pleasant thing in the world, but this time, Ju Nian's silence was uneasy.

After a while, she said to Wu Yu: "We will go to play basketball every weekend from now on. I know there is a stadium where the rent for a single game is very cheap. As long as there is nothing special, as long as you don't say it, you will meet again?"

Wu Yu agreed to her.

Ju Nian's original intention was very simple. She hoped to see Wu Yu more and didn't want him to mingle with those strange people. Wu Yu was a good person on the edge, and she didn't want anyone to push him. Ju Nian thought that as long as she took up a little more time, he would have fewer chances to smoke with those people.

Wu Yu is a trustworthy person. He comes every week, sometimes on Saturdays, and sometimes on Sundays. Every time he would inform Ju Nian in advance of the next time this week. When he had no money to rent a venue, they would go to the open space in the Martyrs Cemetery.

There were a few times when they met Chen Jiejie in the oldest badminton hall in the city. Ju Nian didn’t know why Chen Jiejie chose such a equipment and venues, which were not very good. Chen Jiejie said that she had poor football skills and was the same everywhere.

Chen Jiejie brings different partners every time. Sometimes when she is placed, she will politely ask Ju Nian and Wu Yu if they can play one or two games with her. Since they are classmates and peers, the other party is generous, Ju Nian is embarrassed to be too stingy. After a while, Wu Yu and Chen Jiejie got familiar with each other.

After all, it was a girl's character. Ji Nian couldn't hold it in and asked Wu Yu awkwardly once.

"Little monk, do you think Chen Jiejie is good-looking?"

"It looks good." Wu Yu answered honestly.

"Then what?"

"And what?"

"Oh, nothing."

When Wu Yu talked about others being nice, Ju Nian felt a little depressed, but then she thought, Chen Jiejie was pretty, just like Han Shu looked pretty, this is all facts, Wu Yu just reported it to the truth. Being good looks is pretty, but it is just pretty. As for the future - there will be nothing in the future!
Chapter completed!