In the middle of summer, I walked through the long corridor to Class 6 of Grade 3 at the western end. Every classroom I passed by was full of people, shouting and making noises in groups of three or five, and the whole floor was in an uproar.

The first day back to school is the most active, and key high schools are no exception.

Class six seemed much quieter because Wang Wei was standing on the podium with his arms folded, a notebook tucked under his arm. He had a sullen look on his face and kept counting people with his chin in the air. Everyone in the audience felt uneasy.

The first thing he noticed was Shengxia, who was standing outside the corridor hesitantly.

He nodded and walked out, and the students in the classroom also leaned their heads to look outside.

"Hello, teacher." Shengxia was the first to greet.

"Mingxia is here," Wang Wei smiled and pointed to the last seat. "You are now seated at the last table in the third group. Don't worry, we will move it every Monday. The stairs will move to the lower right corner. You will be at the first table next week."

Although she didn't quite understand how to move specifically, Shengxia had good eyesight and was tall enough, so she wasn't worried about the seat issue, so she just nodded.

Wang Wei was about to lead her to the podium to introduce her, when she called out softly, "Teacher Wang, I want to go back to my seat directly, is that ok?"

Wang Wei knew that the girl was shy, so he didn't insist. "Go ahead, I'll talk to my classmates."

Shengxia entered the classroom through the back door from the corridor and sat in her seat.

Apart from the single row of seats against the wall, her seat was closest to the door, so she didn't need to cross the aisle and walk in front of her classmates, which was exactly what Shengxia wanted.

Even so, she could not avoid the attention of her classmates.

Wang Wei returned to the podium and patted the table. "There is a new student in our class this semester, named Shengxia. Everyone should help Shengxia integrate into our class six and communicate and learn from each other."

"Okay, teacher!" A loud female voice came from the sparse whispers.

The person who spoke was Shengxia's deskmate, a girl with a slightly dark complexion and a very sweet smile. At this moment, her white teeth were exposed, with shallow dimples on the corners of her mouth, and she looked at Shengxia with a smile.

Wang Wei responded, "Very good, Xin Xiaohe, take good care of your deskmate."

Xin Xiaohe used the chair as a rocking chair, with her front legs off the ground and her back legs propped up. She also raised her hands high and stretched out her whole body, "No problem!"

After she finished speaking, the chair shook, and Shengxia quickly held it up.

Wang Wei saw this and said, "Xin Xiaohe! You don't know how to sit properly. Don't let me fall down and make you lie down for ten days or half a month. Are you going to take the college entrance examination?"

"Understood, sir." Xin Xiaohe shrank back obediently, smiling.

Wang Wei asked a few boys to move the new books, but before they had gone far the classroom became noisy.

Everyone looked at the new classmate intentionally or unintentionally, but no one came up to talk to him.

"Shengxia, right? Welcome. You'll be with me from now on. My name is Xin Xiaohe." Xin Xiaohe introduced herself.

"Thank you," Shengxia asked, "Which he is it?"

Xin Xiaohe couldn't help but lower her voice when she heard her soft voice, "He Miao's He Ya."

Shengxia: “It’s really special.”

"Where is the special duck?"

Midsummer thought briefly and said, "The seedlings under the morning light are full of hope."

Xin Xiaohe laughed. The serious look of this new classmate was a little funny. "It's not the Xiao of morning, it's the Xiao of bamboo."

"That's even more special. Rice seedlings have grown next to the bamboo," Shengxia said. "They are very strong."

Xin Xiaohe couldn't hold it in any longer, and instantly dropped that soft tone that she couldn't quite grasp, laughing out loud: "Hahahahahahaha, if my mom knew that you explained these two words she just randomly looked up in the dictionary in such a cultured way, she would definitely faint from laughing."

As he said this, he patted Shengxia's shoulder heavily.

Shengxia felt pain and didn't know if her words were redundant, so her smile seemed a little forced.

The boy at the front desk was listening to the meaningless conversation between the two girls. He turned around and saw this scene. He looked at Xin Xiaohe with disdain, "Xin Xiaohe, don't bully the new classmate!"

"What nonsense are you talking about, Yang Linyu! We are having a soul communication, what do you know? Stay away from meddling in the affairs of beautiful women!" Xin Xiaohe completely tore off the gentle and soft skin just now, and fired like firecrackers.

The boy surrendered with his hands, looking scared and unwilling to get involved. Before turning back, he muttered, "What kind of beauty are you..."

The next second, Xin Xiaohe's notebook fell on the back of the boy's head.

There was a "pop" sound, followed by the boy's cry of pain, and Shengxia's heart began to pound.

My deskmate seems a little irritable.

After the first period of evening study, the books for various subjects were distributed one after another. The seats in front of Shengxia and on her right were still empty, but she was sure that they were occupied because these two seats were not left out when the books were distributed and were piled up like a small mountain.

To her right was a row of seats against the wall, separated from her by an aisle.

The empty table in front was still being tidied up by my classmate, but the table on the right was piled high and no one was paying attention to it. It was about to fall down.

Shengxia moved closer and stretched out her hand to grab the book. The cover was too slippery, and the book could maintain a delicate balance without touching it. But once she touched it, the book fell to the ground with a loud noise.

This movement did not attract much attention in the busy classroom, but Shengxia panicked as if she had done something wrong. She quickly picked them up, afraid that they would fall again, and stacked them according to size and thickness.

Xin Xiaohe had just introduced some things about the affiliated high school to Shengxia, and fell asleep with a dry mouth. Now she was awakened by the sound of books falling. She opened her eyes and saw the girl carefully arranging the books one by one. Like a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder, she even trimmed the corners of the books neatly. The light shone on her fair cheeks, and the fur jumped in the light, fine and soft.

"What's this?" Xin Xiaohe muttered to herself.

Zhang Shu and Hou Junqi strode into the classroom from the back door, but saw a familiar girl standing next to their seats, but a stranger in this class. Both of them paused.

Hou Junqi even stepped back to the corridor to check the class number: "Grade 3, Class 6, that's right... What the hell?"

These frequent encounters made Shengxia want to say "damn it".

This time she didn't need to guess to know that the two empty seats belonged to the two "strangers" in front of her, whom she met for the third time in a week.

And she just learned from Xin Xiaohe that the seating arrangements at Nanjing University High School are very strict.

First, pick out the top eight students in the class and put them in a separate row;

Then, the rest follow the "helping principle", the better the grades, the worse the grades of the people sitting next to them, that is, the ninth place sits with the last place, the tenth place sits with the second to last place, and so on;

Thirdly, try to have girls sit at the same table with girls and boys sit at the same table with boys, and simply make a simple swap based on the list in the previous item;

Finally, seats will be changed every Monday, with each person moving one column to the right and one row back.

This will not only ensure fair positions and reduce parental interference, but also ensure that everyone is surrounded by both top students and poor students, making it easier for everyone to improve together.

As for why there is a separate column.

Xin Xiaohe said: "It allows you to be independent and sober after spending some time as a deskmate."

How can you say it's like living together?

After hearing these complicated rules, Shengxia's first reaction was that the management methods of key schools are indeed quite special.

The second thing she thought of naturally was her own results. Xin Xiaohe was ranked eleventh, which means she was last.

Xin Xiaohe comforted her by saying that the last few were boys, so they swapped seats with her.

This did not comfort Shengxia. After all, she was still the last among the girls...

Also, the next week, she changed seats and moved to the right to the row of single seats, and the week after that, she moved to the first group at the far north.

The deskmate became the person on her right now——

The man was pulling out a chair, throwing his schoolbag onto the back of the chair, and looking at her standing there, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why are you standing there?"

There was no title and the tone was lukewarm, which was nothing between two people who knew each other.

Such a remark suddenly uttered between two strangers seemed unfriendly.

In addition, he was more than half a head taller than her, and looking down at her, which made her feel a little oppressive.

Shengxia's hand, which was pinching the corner of the book, froze, and she silently returned to her seat and sat down.

"Zhang Shu, are you a dog? Why are you barking everywhere?" Xin Xiaohe stood up angrily, with her hands on her hips.

The boy raised his eyes, a little confused, and gave Xin Xiaohe a look: Is there anything I can help you with?

Xin Xiaohe said: "They were kind enough to help you pack up your books, otherwise they would have been trampled and ruined by now. You don't know how kind they are."

Then she patted the boy in front of her on the head and said, "Yang Linyu, stand up and learn what it means to bully a new classmate."

Yang Linyu rubbed the back of his head, "Just keep your words, if you keep moving your hands and feet every day, you might not be able to get married!"

"None of your business!"

The two of them quarreled endlessly.

Zhang, Shu. Shengxia thought about this name.

He was the one who made Wang Wei so angry that he wanted to report the school for making up lessons. He was the rebellious person.

According to the seat, he was still the number one who rubbed all the top students of No. 2 Middle School on the test paper.

Putting these labels on one person - it's really weird.

Zhang Shu glanced at the neatly arranged books on the table and raised his eyebrows. "Thank you."

Before Shengxia could respond, she felt a huge creature falling from the table in front of her.

Hou Junqi sat down in front of Shengxia, turned around and said in surprise: "New classmate? What a coincidence!"

When he turned around and kicked, her desk shook slightly.

He is really big and strong.

"Well, hello, classmate..." Shengxia answered politely. Compared with Hou Junqi's voice, her voice sounded like a little rabbit.

Hou Junqi asked: "Where did you transfer from?"

Shengxia said, "No. 2 Middle School."

Hou Junqi asked: "Which junior high school did you go to?"

Shengxia said, "No. 8 Middle School."

Hou Junqi: "I'm from No. 15 Middle School."

Midsummer: “Oh oh” is also a key junior high school.

Hou Junqi asked: "What's your name?"

"midsummer."

"My name is Hou Junqi, which means "Hou" in "gonghou", "Jun" in "jun horse", and "Qi" in "Qihuang's art".

Shengxia said, "Hello, Hou, Jun, Qi."

Hou Junqi raised his chin and pointed to the back row: "His name is Zhang Shu."

"oh oh."

"Thirty-five."

"That's it." She didn't have much impression of this middle school. It was very remote and not in the city.

Shengxia caught a glimpse out of the corner of her eye and saw the person who was forcibly introduced turned his head and glanced at them.

Hou Junqi suddenly came closer, lowered his voice, and said to Shengxia with a mysterious expression, "If you know each other in such detail, then we are friends, right?"

midsummer:?

"Um."

Hou Junqi: "Then you have to keep what happened tonight a secret for your friend."

Keep it a secret? Shengxia was confused for a moment, "What's going on?"

However, in Hou Junqi's eyes, her slowness was a tacit "forgetfulness".

He slapped his thigh and suddenly jumped up, looking at Shengxia with an admiring look that said, "I'm determined to be your friend." "This new classmate is really smart!"

midsummer:……?

A short laugh came from the right.

Zhang Shu commented: "My mother is mentally retarded."

I don't know who I'm talking about.