Chapter 122: The Past (1)
The first time Luo Yan met Jiang Zhao was during a break at the beginning of the first grade of junior high school.
As the top student in his grade, he went on stage to speak on behalf of the freshmen.
Group A was in the middle of the playground, and when doing exercises, they had to go around from the back of the playground to the front of the podium.
There are a lot of people in Mingyuan No. 1 Middle School, with a total of 6,000 students from three grades, filling the entire playground. Therefore, the students at the end of the team will not take the exercises too seriously.
In the sparse crowd, he saw Jiang Zhao at a glance.
The girl had two pigtails, and she performed every movement very methodically, with the pigtails swinging along with the movements. She was so serious that she seemed to be leading the exercises on the stage instead of sitting in the corner of the playground of Mingyuan No. 1 Middle School.
But she seemed to have no memory of the radio gymnastics movements, and was always half a beat behind or skipping some movements, like a clumsy penguin.
Luo Yan remembered that this was the queue for Group D. He took a quick look and saw that it was Class D7.
There are 6,000 students in their school, but he always sees that stupid penguin in school.
This doesn't seem to be accurate. Penguins are all fat and round, but girls have long arms and legs, and apart from a little baby fat on their faces, they have nothing to do with penguins.
The girl was very pretty, so there were always boys coming up to her, pulling her braids and playing with her.
But she didn't understand the dirty tricks that the junior high school boys used to attract the girls' attention, so she turned around and scolded those boys, even pulling out the leader's hair, which caused him to curse at her.
She didn't care at all and cursed back directly without suffering any loss.
He learned her name from those boys.
Jiang Zhao.
Gradually, the boys stopped bothering her.
She had become taller and thinner, and she no longer wore pigtails. She followed others and started to wear her hair in thick bangs. When they passed each other at school, she lowered her head and walked hurriedly.
Luo Yan almost called out her name.
The next day at school, he received a call from Xu Xin.
She said, "Your father is going to beat me to death."
That class was physical education, and he didn't ask the teacher for leave and just climbed out of the school playground.
The house was in a mess. Xu Xin sat on the floor and said, "Xiao Yan, your father is crazy!"
The president of the Polytechnic University was under investigation for corruption, and Luo Wenchuan was implicated. Perhaps because he was afraid, he slapped Xu Xin in the face when Xu Xin spoke to him a few more words.
The two fought again, and it ended with Luo Wenchuan slamming the door and leaving.
Luo Yan looked at Xu Xin. Her face was red and swollen, and her eyes were full of tears, but he didn't have the slightest sympathy for his mother.
Is he still a normal person?
He thought about it and said coldly: "Then you should get a divorce."
Xu Xin's eyes widened, her mouth trembling: "What nonsense are you talking about?"
She raised her hand, wanting to slap him, but Luo Yan didn't move. At that moment, he secretly hoped that Xu Xin would beat him up, so that he could repay their kindness in raising him, instead of being like this, like a monster that was torn apart by them.
Xu Xin's slap still didn't fall. She said, "I won't get divorced, and your father won't get divorced either."
“So touching.”
Luo Yan's tone was calm: "Then why did you ask me to come back?"
"What can I do?" She stared at Luo Yan, her eyes bloodshot. "You are my son, shouldn't I look for you? Can't you comfort me?"
Luo Yan knew that she was still going to say that.
She said, "It's all because of you. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be able to live with your dad anymore!"
Luo Yan laughed.
He said, "I plan to live on campus next semester. It's up to you."
Afterwards, the Polytechnic University underwent a major reshuffle.
But Luo Wenchuan seems to be really innocent.
He kept his job.
So, they still didn't divorce.
They seemed to have completely put aside their grudges and were a very loving couple from beginning to end, performing tirelessly in front of others.
In the second year of junior high school, Luo Yan applied to live on campus and was assigned to the last dormitory.
The junior high school dormitory is very large, with more than a dozen people living in one dormitory. There are several people in their dormitory who are from Class D7.
The boys were chatting at night and talking about which girl in the class was pretty.
One of them said, "I think that person in D7 is really pretty."
"Who is it?"
"The one with bangs, his name is Jiang something."
"Jiang Zhao?"
"You don't mean the female dinosaur in our class?"
"What's your aesthetic?"
"Haha, what a country bumpkin! Our homeroom teacher said she was serious about her radio gymnastics and asked us to learn from her. Isn't that stupid?"
The lights in the dormitory were off, and I heard that familiar name again, accompanied by their naked malice.
Luo Yan stared at the dark ceiling and said, "Shut up."
Junior high school students always have a filter for those with good grades, let alone the one who is top of the grade and the favorite of the principal and teachers.
For a moment, no one in the dormitory spoke.
Yue Liangjie's voice rang out, and he asked, "Yan Shen, do you know Jiang Zhao?"
Ever since he started living on campus, Yue Liangjie often looked for him, sometimes to ask questions, sometimes just to chat with him, but he always responded indifferently.
But that day, Luo Yan rarely spoke: "I don't know him. I just think it's stupid to talk about others behind their backs like you do."
For the first time, Luo Yan wondered if he was wrong.
He wandered for a whole day and stood in the playground after school, feeling torn between two things in his heart.
Just then, he saw Jiang Zhao again.
The girl's eyes were red, as if she had just cried.
He originally thought that she just wanted to find a deserted corner to cry, and he just needed to wait for her to vent and then go over and hand her a tissue.
But he didn't expect that the girl would actually flip over the playground railing.
She was very agile. She stepped onto the wall, pushed herself up onto the railing with her hands, and landed lightly on the ground like a butterfly.
She ran past the school, and the playground railings separated them. Luo Yan saw the wind blowing her bangs, and somehow, Luo Yan felt that she seemed to have made some kind of decision.
Like a rose over a fence.
…
From that day on, he heard Jiang Zhao's name many times from Yue Liangjie.
He said that Jiang Zhao in their class had gone crazy recently and had started studying seriously.
He said that the boys in their class have recently liked to ask Jiang Zhao to copy their homework, and the female dinosaur's nickname has become Longlong.
He said that Jiang Zhao got full marks in math, and the math teacher asked them all to learn from her serious attitude.
When he saw Jiang Zhao again at school, she was walking hurriedly, but there was a gleam in her eyes, tough as weeds, yet dazzling as the sun.
In addition to posting the top 100 list outside, the school also publishes a grade-by-grade list. After each exam, Luo Yan would go to the class teacher to check the list.
The head teacher just thought that he was too lazy to squeeze to the blackboard in the corridor, but only Luo Yan knew that he wanted to see her.
She went from ranking over 1,000 to 700, 600, 400... and then stagnated at over 100.
Jiang Zhao's English is not good, but the English paper of Mingyuan No. 1 Middle School is very difficult, while the English paper of the high school entrance examination is much simpler. As long as she performs normally, she should be able to get into the key class of the headquarters.
But what if she doesn't want to report Mingyuan?
When this thought came to mind, Luo Yan finally realized that he had fallen in love with someone.
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