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Chapter 59

Black clouds overwhelmed the city, rainstorms poured like splashes, accumulated water was mighty, thick fog rose in the night, and a vast expanse of white shrouded the black land.

A smoggy blue Lincoln speeding through the wind and rain.

……

Yan Ji smelled coal.

very light.

And wind, sweat, grass...

She opened her eyes and saw the junior high school playground, the cinder track, the cement table tennis table, the bald football field, the boys and girls in school uniforms cheering, and the big characters written in white lime on the wall in the distance, which were vague and unreal.

"Yan Ji, why are you going?"

"Don't play anymore, I have something to do today." The boy Yan Ji kicked back the football, threw the school uniform over his shoulder and entered the classroom.

When the short squad leader saw her, his bushy eyebrows stood upside down, and his face wrinkled into a steamed bun: "Yan Ji! The teacher asked me to go to self-study class, why did you go to play football again?"

"Grow up." Yan Ji said with a playful smile, walked straight to the back of the classroom, and picked up Yan Deng who was drawing a blackboard newspaper.

Yan Deng shook her body and her feet had already left the stool. Her hands were stained with chalk drawings, and she could only wrap her arms around Yan Ji's neck, her cheeks flushed red with anxiety: "...Quick, hurry up, let go..."

Yan Ji grinned: "I'm afraid I'll fall you soon."

Before the words were finished, the whole class erupted, and the turbulent hormones smoked all the immature and peach-like faces.The students were excited, their eyes were shining brightly, and the ghostly screams of booing almost toppled the roof.

"My girly heart!!!"

"Oh oh oh! You are robbing people! Hurry up and pay the money!"

"You have no results!"

"What is it called, learn from Yan Ji..."

The little squad leader became so angry that he slapped the podium with a blackboard eraser: "Quiet! Be quiet! Do you want the red flag this week? If you keep making noise, I will tell the old class."

Yan Ji carried Yan Deng back to his seat and let her sit on the desk. Yan Deng quickly got down and grabbed her sleeve.Yan Ji grabbed the two schoolbags on the table and threw them over his shoulders: "What's the matter? You agreed to come home with me for dinner today."

The little squad leader was in a hurry: "Why? Yan Ji, you didn't study hard, and you even spoiled..."

"My girlfriend is the oldest every time." Yan Ji took out the chalk in Yan Deng's hand, broke off a section and threw it at it.

"No. [-] in the Hua Cup."

smash!

"First place in the Shaolan Cup."

Smashed... didn't go out, but was stopped by Yan Deng.

Yan Deng hugged Yan Ji's arm and shook his head slightly.Her eyebrows and eyes were opened a little, and the light pink on the tip of the lotus root buds was the delicate and clean color of a young girl.

Well, it still looks like a good bully.

Yan Ji pinched her soft cheeks with a smile, and rubbed the chalk dust in his hand on Yan Deng's face.Yan Deng pursed his lips and accused in a low voice, "Very, bad."

Yan Ji felt complacent when he heard it, and his smile became brighter and brighter.She patted the chalk dust on her hands, turned her head to provoke the little squad leader: "At worst, you go make a small report."

Different from primary school students' dependence on teachers and awe of adults' authority, children in junior high school think "I have grown up". "Small reporting" is tantamount to "treasoning the country and seeking glory", and it will be nailed to the pillar of shame and flogged.

The class leader ignored Yan Ji, and tried to persuade Yan Deng: "The old class said that the Education Bureau will come to our school for research next week. You are good at drawing and your handwriting is beautiful..."

"Hey, hey, you've been saying this since the beginning of school, can you get something fresh?" Yan Ji interrupted impatiently, and said to Yan Deng, "Don't talk nonsense with him. Let's go."

The squad leader got anxious and walked over from the podium: "Yan Deng, don't play with her..."

Yan Ji immediately became furious, and pushed him away: "Believe it or not, I will beat you."

"Don't you dare!" The class leader clenched his attendance book tightly and muttered, "You can't hit someone, and if you hit someone again, you will be expelled from school."

"Threat me?" Yan Ji was furious when he heard it, and rolled up his sleeves to beat him after handing out his schoolbag.

Yan Deng grabbed Yan Ji and handed the draft of the blackboard newspaper to the class leader.She has always been reticent, and she looks very dull and withdrawn among a group of young and lively boys and girls, but the small squad leader feels that she is more mature than her peers, and has already learned to appreciate the charm of the solitary and beautiful white clouds.

He took the drawing with both hands, and glared at Yan Ji angrily.

Yan Ji was puzzled, but it didn't prevent her from staring back arrogantly.She pulled Yan Deng out of the class door, turned around and waved to her classmates: "Let's go, see you next Monday."

The students laughed and shouted——

"Congratulations to the little prince and princess."

"Go away, I wish you to be caught by the principal before you go out."

"People can go, leave homework!"

Everyone was laughing and laughing, only the little squad leader felt sour and astringent, thinking to himself, why is he not a girl, so he can hug and hold her high.

If there are rumors that a boy is in love with a girl, the teachers and parents will be as anxious as a child who drank pesticide, and will be sent to the funeral home immediately if they are not rescued.Girls and girls hold hands and hug each other, teachers and parents will only smile dotingly, look, girls are sticky.

Girls at this age like the barking of their husbands and wives, and it is common for popular girls to have three wives and four concubines.Yan Ji participated in the school sports meeting, and the number of people cheering and cheering could form three classes.

The little squad leader secretly clenched his fists to cheer himself up: It will be fine when I grow up. When I grow up, I can chase Yan Deng and marry her with eight palanquins.Well, let Yan Ji be the bridesmaid, and make her mad!Forget it, let her sit in the first row and watch.

The squad leader was arranging work for Yan Ji in his heart, and Yan Ji was also complaining to Yan Deng: "You said he was annoying, and I could finish class early on Friday, so I have to do some self-studying. There is also a blackboard newspaper, which keeps blowing His grandfather is the president of the Book Association, why don't you do it yourself, you will let you do it and then take the credit."

Yan Deng took out a bunch of brass keys from his schoolbag and handed them to Yan Ji.

Since Yan Ji lost the keys twice, she handed in the keys every morning, and took them away from Yan Deng after school. The effect was remarkable, and she never lost the keys again.

"It's so annoying, I have to lock it every day." Yan Ji complained and unlocked the car, took the schoolbag from Yan Deng and piled it into the car basket.

Yan Deng stood aside: "How many goals did you score today?"

Yan Ji proudly said: "Three to one, I got two, isn't it great?"

Yan Deng nodded, looking serious and well-behaved.

Yan Ji hooked her shoulders and hugged her into his arms: "Deng Deng, you are so cute, you are the cutest."

Yan Deng lowered his head and pinched the corner of Yan Ji's school uniform, and helped her zip it up. Yan Ji was like a small stove, and when he got close to it, he could feel the heat of the face.

After leaving the school gate, Yan Ji stepped on the bicycle with his right leg: "Come up."

Yan Deng grabbed the hem of her clothes and got on the bicycle.Yan Ji pedaled and began to speed up, shuttled through the traffic crowd after school, the bicycle wobbled as if he might fall down at any time.

Yan Deng hurriedly put his arms around her waist.

Yan Ji felt his waist tighten, and slowed down as if someone had grabbed the brakes.She pressed against the curb, pedaling leisurely, and occasionally rang the car bell, and a series of crisp jingle bells sprinkled under the shade of the plane tree.

Yan Ji's home is in the old city, adjacent to the No. [-] Department Store on the left, and the district government on the right. She lives with her grandfather in the cadre rest house, a quiet place amidst the hustle and bustle.

"It's here." Yan Ji threw the bicycle in the corridor, grabbed the schoolbag in the basket, and pointed to the left, "This is my home, remember."

Yan Deng just discovered that this house is special, because dozens of rows of "positive" characters are densely written on the wall.Each row is written to the root of the wall, but the height is different.The row closest to the green iron gate is the shortest, only about one meter high.The latest row of orthographic characters has not been finished yet, but Yan Deng couldn't touch the first "orthographic" character with his hand.

Yan Ji walked in front, she didn't open the door first, but opened the mailbox of 103, picked up a yellow brick corner from inside, drew a horizontal line heavily on the wall, and filled in the missing "正" character.

"Do you want to know?" Yan Ji turned his head and smiled at Yan Deng after writing.

Yan Deng nodded.

Yan Ji sighed strangely: "Why are you so obedient?" She tapped the writing on the wall with the turning head in her hand: "When I was young, my grandpa coaxed me to say that my parents would come back to see me after writing a row of orthographic characters. Actually My parents are defending the frontier and cannot go home casually."

Yan Deng held her hand: "Don't be sad."

Yan Ji grinned: "I'm not sad. My parents are fine. Write me letters, send me food, and photos. When I grow up, I will take you to Xinjiang. It's beautiful there. There are snow mountains , and the leopard, super handsome."

Yan Ji dragged Yan Deng home as she spoke, and she stopped suddenly after two steps, she was a little shy: "Don't tell others."

Yan Deng was taken aback, and looked at the word "正" on the wall.

Yan Ji pursed his lips and bulged his cheeks, and called out with a half-smile, "Dengdeng."

Yan Deng looked at her, and Yan Ji blinked his eyes: "In the future, if you think about it, I can also write the correct one, one correct and five strokes, and one week will pass after writing one, very quickly."

Yan Deng pursed the corners of his lips: "...it's been too long."

Yan Ji hugged Yan Deng: "I knew you were the best! Deng Deng, don't leave me, I will protect you. I have a bad memory, and I will forget when you leave, so let's go Go to a high school or a university in the future, okay?"

Yan Deng replied: "You want to study hard."

Yan Ji immediately let go of her: "Deng Deng, you are too annoying."

She ran and jumped to open the door: "Come in."

The old house in the dry place has a very simple layout, two bedrooms and one living room, with a small yard.The layout of the room is full of military camp style, simple and tidy without any superfluous things.

"This is the training ground." Yan Ji brought Yan Deng into the yard, and introduced them one by one, "You see, the climbing wall is handsome, and the tires were brought back by my grandfather and me. And this is called the flat ladder sandbag rack. "

Yan Ji opened his posture and punched a few times: "Would you like to watch the kicking horse stance, I just learned it."

"Wait until you finish your homework." Yan Deng said this sentence for a semester and a half, and blurted it out very smoothly.

Yan Ji puffed up his cheeks: "You just don't want to watch it."

Yan Deng is very principled: "I want to see it, wait until you finish your homework."

"Okay, okay." Yan Ji, who surrendered first every time, tilted his head and shuffled towards the room.

In Yan Ji's room, there is an army green iron canopy bed, the quilt is folded into tofu cubes.A wooden desk with nothing on it.A large cabinet covered in decals.Yan Deng glanced at them, and they were all anime characters that Yan Ji liked.

Yan Ji threw the schoolbag on the table, and took out the notebook and pencil case: "Deng Deng, do you want some water?"

"No."

"I'll get it for you."

"Wait until you finish your homework."

"Deng Deng, do you want to eat?"

"No."

"Deng Deng, the fried sausage in our community is good. I'll take you to buy it."

"Wait until you finish your homework."

Under Yan Deng's stern and selfless supervision, Yan Ji finally finished his homework.As usual, it was handed over to Yan Deng for inspection, and two typos were corrected.Once addicted to study, drinking water, fried sausage, and military boxing were all thrown away. After Yan Ji listened to Yan Deng's lecture on the two major problems of the math paper in the second semester of junior high school, grandpa came back.

Yan Ji heard the sound of the door opening, so he stood up and walked out: "It smells so good! What delicious food did you buy?"

Grandpa Yan Ji has white hair, a straight waist, and the spirit of a veteran. He is full of doting on his granddaughter: "Dog nose, you like to eat it."

Yan Deng came out after him, bowed slightly and called softly, "Grandpa is good."

"Oh, Deng Deng is still polite and obedient, good boy, I'll cook for you." Grandpa Yan Ji smiled, and stretched out his hand to greet Yan Ji, "Pi Hou, cut up the watermelon."

"Okay." Yan Ji hugged the watermelon, turned his head and said to Yan Deng, "Deng Deng, turn on the TV, my Legend of the Rainbow Cat, Blue Rabbit and Seven Heroes will be on soon."

Yan Ji cut up the watermelon and brought it over. Yan Deng was standing by the TV, hesitantly asked her: "Come on, this?"

Yan Ji didn't think much about it: "Yes, don't you have a TV at home?"

Yan Deng: "Yes."

Yan Ji was startled: "Huh?"

Yan Ji scratched the back of his head, feeling a little sad suddenly.Although the economy was not booming in the past few years, TV refrigerators have already entered ordinary people's homes. For children, they are all ordinary things that cannot be ordinary.

Yan Ji was suddenly depressed, and sat listlessly on the sofa.

Yan Deng turned on the TV, walked over and sat beside her not too far away.

The young Yan Ji is always extremely sensitive, and even the slightest mood swings of others can irritate her.But she was still too young to understand why she was so irritable and irritable. It was just that everyone said she had a bad temper.

She said angrily, "Why do you sit so far away?"

Yan Deng never gets angry, she always calms Ni Lin: "Can I eat watermelon?"

"Of course!" Yan Ji quickly grabbed a corner and handed it to Yan Deng's mouth, happily urging, "I secretly ate a piece while cutting it, it's so sweet. Eat it quickly."

Yan Deng leaned over slightly, opened his mouth and took a small bite.

Yan Ji hurriedly asked: "Is it delicious?"

Yan Deng chewed carefully and nodded slightly.

Yan Ji grabbed another piece of watermelon and handed it to Yan Deng's mouth. Yan Deng looked at the piece of watermelon he had just bitten: "No, finish eating."

Yan Ji said mysteriously: "Take a bite first, and I will tell you a secret. Hurry up."

Yan Deng couldn't resist her, so he lowered his head and took a bite.

Yan Ji held up two pieces of watermelon that had been bitten, and laughed happily: "Silly Dengdeng, let me tell you, watermelon is the sweetest with its sharp point."