Ye Cheng

Regarding Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan's grade skipping, Ye Ping was the one who reacted the coldest, because she was obviously not a few years older than them, but when she finally entered the first grade, Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan were already in the fifth grade. In other words, the time they study in the same school is only one year.

She went to sign up with such a depressed mood, but on the first day of school, someone got in her way.

The elementary school that Ye Cheng and the others attended was very dilapidated, not only the classrooms were dilapidated, but also the tables, chairs and benches. Some students were unlucky and had to take the broken desks and chairs from home.Then those desks and chairs will follow them to upgrade year by year. For just a few classes, the teachers of the school will not be idle to change classrooms. If they change groups regularly, students must bring their own desks and chairs.

After the fifth-grade students graduated, some of them brought their desks and chairs from their own homes, and they were about to take them back now, and then waited for the freshmen to report for the next semester. Basically, there were not many good desks and chairs in that classroom.

Ye Ping was not tall, so she was assigned to the front seat. The tables and chairs in front were better. She was lucky not to encounter a broken table and chair. She thought that one thing was missing, that is, the time to go to the toilet. , her desk and stools were all replaced by someone. The replaced desk had no drawers and the chair lacked a leg. The boys found it there.

"Hey! Why did you change my table and chair?" Ye Ping asked loudly very rudely.

"Who changed your table?" The boy was tall, sitting on the stool with his legs crossed, with a rascal look on his face.

"You just changed it. There is a flower drawn with a red pen on this table, I recognize it."

"Did you draw a flower? It's not your name on the painting, so how can you say it's yours?"

"It's mine." Ye Ping said and reached out to move the table.

"What are you doing?" The boy stretched out his hand and pushed Ye Ping. Ye Ping didn't pay attention and fell on a boy next to her. The students next to her immediately started booing...

"Ye Cheng, go and have a look, your sister was beaten!" Ye Cheng was lying on the table flipping through a new textbook, when one of his former classmates yelled from outside the window.

When Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan heard this, they rushed out immediately. The first grade classroom was in a commotion. When Ye Cheng arrived, Ye Ping was fighting vigorously with others. A boy who was taller than him fell to the ground, holding a new textbook that had just been handed out today and slamming it. Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan felt relieved when they saw that she was not at a disadvantage. Pulling it aside, he snatched the "weapon" from his hand.

"Hey! You bullied girls on the first day of school?" Lu Mingyuan squatted beside the tall male classmate who was beaten up, with a look of disapproval.

That male classmate blushed, he didn't bully him, okay?

"Ye Ping, what's the matter?" Ye Cheng pulled Ye Ping and asked.

"He replaced all my desk and chairs." Ye Ping panted, she had been exercising too much just now, and she hadn't recovered yet.

"Is that so?" Ye Cheng turned his head and asked a child next to him.

"Yeah, just now when she went to the bathroom, he changed all the tables and chairs." The child was enjoying watching the excitement, and when Ye Cheng asked him, he smiled and said, the first grade children are relatively simple, There are not so many twists and turns, and everyone doesn't know each other at the beginning of school, and some bullies haven't had time to establish their prestige, so I just talk about it, and I don't think it's a big deal.

"Did you see it?" Ye Cheng asked again.

"Ah, I saw it, he saw it, and she saw it too." The child pointed to the boys and girls next to him, and the children all nodded in agreement, indicating that they had seen it.

"Did you hear that?" Lu Mingyuan raised his chin and said to the boy, "Everyone has seen it. You dare to cause trouble on the first day of school. Let's see if your teacher will punish you later!"

"She beat me just now!" The boy's eyes turned red as he said that.

"It's not right for Ye Ping to beat someone up. How about this? If you replace the table and chairs, we won't tell the teacher." Ye Cheng played the role of peacemaker familiarly.

"Brother! He pushed me first!"

"Is that so?" Ye Cheng turned his head and glanced at the boy, the boy's eyes became even redder, Ye Cheng thought for a while and said, "Forget it, the teacher will come later, you two will definitely be criticized, Just replace the table and chairs."

Ye Ping groaned, but in the end she didn't say anything. Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan changed their desks and chairs, and told Ye Ping to go to the fifth grade to find them if she had something to do, and then went back to her classroom.After such a fuss, Ye Ping became well-known in school. On the first day of school, she beat the tallest boy in the class to the ground. Both brothers are still in the fifth grade. Who would dare to bully her?

Several children are going to school, so no one will take care of the ducks at home. Cai Jinzhi will come over to feed the ducks at noon. Usually, when he is free, he will go to Ye Cheng and his yard to watch.It's not easy for Ye Cheng and the others to always leave things to Cai Jinzhi. They did many things they could do by themselves.

Every morning after waking up, Ye Ping would turn on the fire and Ye Cheng would cook. Ye Cheng would usually cook a large pot of vegetables, half of which would be used for lunch, and the other half would be used to cook rice noodles for breakfast.Lu Mingyuan first picked up the duck eggs, then dug earthworms to feed the ducks, and then filled the trough with dry food. Sometimes he would go to the second aunt who sells pork to buy some lean pork ribs, and put them away to cook at night.

Lunch is also very simple, each person has a lunch box, the rice is beaten by himself, some vegetables fried in the morning are added, and each person has a salted duck egg.There is no cafeteria in the school, so there is no place to steam rice. Ye Cheng and the others usually eat cold rice, which is better in summer, but in winter the rice will be hard, and the lard for cooking will also form small hard lumps.

In the coldest winter, I would go to the homes of nearby classmates to have a steaming. Some parents were very enthusiastic and would keep them for dinner, but Ye Cheng and the others always ate together in the classroom as three, and they would do their homework after eating. At noon, I did all the homework I could do.

Dinner should always be better, they are all growing up, every night Ye Cheng will cook two more dishes, and sometimes there will be soup, three meals a day, this one is the most comfortable meal.After dinner, they still have to do some work. After changing their clothes, they wash them by themselves. They can do the job of pickling salted duck eggs now, so they don't have to go to Cai Jinzhi every time.I dug yellow mud from the side of the road opposite the village entrance, mixed it with water and coarse salt, kneaded it into a paste, wrapped duck eggs one by one in a large water tank, sealed the top, and put them in a cool backyard. If you sell it, it won't go bad if you marinate it for two more months.

There were two grade skippers in the school, and it was impossible for the principal of the elementary school not to report it to the higher authorities. As a result, they were named and criticized at a district teaching meeting. It probably meant that they acted too hastily, and the elementary school in the town did not have any students. Grade-jumping students, they are ahead of a village primary school.

After that, Ye Cheng and his elementary school did not have any skipping students for many years. Just like Ye Ping, even though her grades were already very good, she still had to study step by step year after year. Ye Cheng even went to the principal for this matter. But the headmaster also has his own difficulties. He is the headmaster of a rural elementary school, and he really can't stand the beating, so he has to shrink his head back.

Ye Ping can't skip a grade, she has learned a lot of things by herself, and class is like fried rice, very boring, so she often asks for leave to go back to work for Cai Jinzhi, and the school teachers also turn a blind eye.

Teacher Wu Yigang is quite good. This male teacher is young and has ideas. His enthusiasm for teaching is unmatched by many old teachers.He would often give Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan some advice, and help them consolidate their previous knowledge in view of the fact that they haven't read it for three or four years.

Even so, Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan's year in fifth grade was relatively easy. Compared with the previous rush, now they don't have to think about skipping a grade. If they have any problems, they can still ask their class teacher for advice. Save a lot of useless work.

The transition from elementary school to junior high school went smoothly. With their grades, the two of them successfully entered the key class of the only middle school in their town.There is only one middle school in their town, but there are more than a dozen rural primary schools in the town and the district below, so this middle school is relatively large, with more than a dozen classes in each grade group, and each class has There are fifty or sixty students, and the school provides dormitories for those students whose families live far away.

In Ye Cheng's key class, there are naturally some top students, and most of the top students are more well-behaved. Even if there are a few proud and complacent ones, it will not affect the atmosphere of the whole class.These children are very serious about their studies. You compete with each other and compete secretly. Grades are very important to them. Even if there are a few of them who have a good relationship, they are not like other classes. Laughing and playing.

Generally speaking, the atmosphere of this class was a bit too serious, Lu Mingyuan was satisfied with this, and finally got rid of those enthusiastic girls in their class.

Junior high school is not allowed to skip grades, the school does not allow it, if you have time after studying, you can choose to participate in the Mathematical Olympiad competition, or you can memorize a few more English words, otherwise it is good to practice more oral English, in short, no skip a grade.

Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan are the two youngest children in the class. The teacher inevitably favors them, and they have also been excluded by some classmates. However, they have been in key classes for three years in junior high school. Even if everyone ignores them, they can still interact with each other. Talk about never feeling alone.And, the situation is actually not that bad.

In that year's high school entrance examination, both Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan did pretty well. Both of them scored enough to enter the key high school in the county seat. If they didn't pass the county seat, they wouldn't be able to go home every day like before. There is also the food expenses for each semester, which is not a small sum of expenses.The most important thing is that the high school in their town said that if the two of them go to high school in this school, the tuition and miscellaneous fees will be free. What a temptation this is. high school.

In fact, there are other schools that offer better treatment. A teacher from a private high school in the county went to their village and talked to Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan. Send 300 yuan for food expenses.Ye Chengxiao did some calculations. If he went, he could save his living expenses, but if he and Lu Mingyuan often had to go home, the travel expenses would be a lot of money, and he was not at ease, Ye Ping was alone. Staying at home, there are still a group of ducks to take care of, so I didn't agree.

Before the end of the summer vacation of that year, teacher A Cong decided to take the children from the studio out to sketch. Now there are a few new members in the studio. It turns out that some students have already gone to college outside. During the summer vacation, they often Back to the studio to draw.Lan Mu and another senior high school student have also finished their exams and are waiting for their results, so the studio is now much more lively than before.

When they heard that they were going to go out to sketch, the children in the studio were all overjoyed. They all expressed their desire to go to Ye Cheng's village, and Teacher A Cong smiled and did not object.

"What is there to paint in our village? There is no good scenery at all." Lu Mingyuan didn't want this group of people to go to their village at all. Hospitality is a virtue that he will never learn in his life.

"Don't be so stingy, we will bring the food by ourselves." A tall student stretched out his arms and wrapped Lu Mingyuan's neck around him forcefully.

"Is there any house in our studio that I haven't been to? It's yours." It has to be said that art students are quite good at playing, and everyone is crazy and familiar with each other, and they don't know how to write the word polite.

"Little Ye Zi, don't you plan to let us go?" Lu Mingyuan has always been a difficult guy, but Ye Cheng is different.

"No, but there is really nothing to paint in our village. If it's not too far away, I'll take you to Shiba Ridge. The scenery there is quite good." Ye Cheng also liked the students in the studio, and they always treated Ye Cheng Cheng and Lu Mingyuan took good care of each other.

"Eighteen Ridges?" Many children have never heard of this place.

"As soon as I heard the name, I knew it was a good place." The little boy spread his fingers in a figure-seven shape, leaning on his chin that had just sprouted stubble, and made a POSS after Ultraman defeated the monster.

"Well, it makes sense!" The students in the studio nodded in agreement.

So the location of sketching was finalized in this way. We chose a fine day with fine weather. Everyone got up early, first took a van to Ye Cheng's town, and then took a tractor to Shibaling.

The tractor carried a group of students into the mountain, a section of gravel road and a section of loess road, swaying along the way, the group of students did not show signs of maladaptation at all, everyone was very happy, and some even took the lead in singing After the [-]th bend of the mountain road, a carload of teenagers, especially those with a male duck voice in the voice change period, opened their throats and sang the [-]th bend. They ran out of tune and ran more than [-] bends, shouting "Yo~" every time. Yo~ Yoyo" was very exciting, and the uncle who drove the tractor in front laughed.

"Is this what you said the scenery is not bad?" As soon as you reached the [-]th bend, someone pulled Ye Cheng and asked this question.

"What's the matter? It's pretty good." Could it be that the places they went to before were much better than this?Ye Cheng couldn't figure it out for a while. Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan didn't follow them when they went out to sketch.

"Brother, this is called a good view, so tell me, what is considered a good view?" The man continued to ask with a serious face.

"Hey." Ye Cheng finally understood what the kid wanted to say, so he smiled and didn't answer.

"You kid is too unkind, you hide such a good place and don't tell everyone."

"This place is great, let's stay for a few more days."

"Lanmu, hurry up, lend me your phone, I have to tell my mother, it seems like I won't be able to go back in two or three days."

"..."

Ye Cheng didn't care how crazy those people were, he went to the old woman's house with Lu Mingyuan, and sent over a dozen salted duck eggs that he had packed. It's broken.

"Oh, it's Ye Cheng." The old man was busy working on the stove, and when he heard Ye Cheng's voice, he quickly touched it out.

"I'm here too." Lu Mingyuan followed Ye Cheng behind and said with a smile.

"Oh, Mingyuan is here too, come here, let grandma see, she has grown taller again." The old lady's children are not around, and Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan have been living in her house since they went to the Eighteen Ridges. After a long time, naturally become more and more intimate.

"Salted duck eggs." Ye Cheng said, handing over the salted duck eggs in his hand.

"Stupid boy, what else do you bring to Grandma's place?" He said with a smile in his eyes.

"Isn't this a duck raised by myself? It doesn't cost money."

"Have you eaten yet?" the old lady asked, taking Ye Cheng's hand.

"I came only when I was full, this time with our teachers and classmates."

"Then tell them, we will eat at grandma's house at noon." The old lady is quite generous, but she is indeed not short of money.

"They went to the vegetable market to buy something before they went out, and they will cook here then, will it work?"

"What's wrong with this? You tell them to come, don't be polite to grandma." The old man agreed.

The students in the studio have all gone out to play. Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan are already very familiar with this place, and they didn't think much about going out to play. Besides, they still have work to do. Just now when a child saw them entering the village, they shouted everywhere. They opened it, saying that Ah Cheng, the shoe repairer, had come again, and asked them to quickly take out the broken shoes at home.

Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan now earn 32 cents for repairing shoes. In the early years when they first went to Shibaling, although they earned 290 to [-] cents, the money at that time was spent. The tuition fee is only [-]. Last semester, Ye Ping's tuition fee was more than [-]. This semester, it costs [-]. This calculation is basically ten times, but what about the money for shoe repairs?

The business of salted duck eggs is not very prosperous. In the past two years, there have been more people raising ducks in the village. Ye Cheng’s uncle Qian Shouwan’s family also raised a group of ducks. Naturally, there are more people salting salted duck eggs. The sales are not very active, and the business in the county is not so easy.

There are also outsiders who come to collect duck eggs. Both salted duck eggs and fresh duck eggs are available, but the price is not ideal. Salted duck eggs are only [-] cents each, and it depends on the quality of the goods. If the eggs are small or have other problems, the price has to be lowered. .Fresh duck eggs are bought by the catty, which is cheaper than salted duck eggs, so you can't count on them at all.

The group of students in the studio is the representative of the word carefree. Most of them are from good families. At least they don’t have to worry about tuition and food.

Before entering the mountain, Teacher A Cong took a few students to buy a lot of food and brought them in, including meat and vegetables, and some long-lasting ham sausages, bean curd sticks, dried fish, etc., which have been stored for a few days. At the grandmother's house, a group of students lined up and took turns cooking.Grandma was taken over by someone, and she was happy to eat ready-made ones. She was an old man who lived alone in this deep mountain, and she was very clean all year round. She didn't dislike having a little fun once in a while.

On the first day of the [-]th bend, the group of students only cared about playing, and no one drew a half-frame work. Teacher A Cong was very open-minded. Anyway, he brought the students out to play, and he wanted them to The meaning of taking a break, maybe, he also wanted to come out to take a break.

In the evening, everyone lit a bonfire on the rocky beach by the stream, and a group of children clamored to stay up all night. Teacher A Cong bought a lot of sweet potatoes from nearby farmers’ homes and roasted them, and also bought some watermelons to quench everyone’s thirst. .

I don’t know who took the lead in telling the ghost story, and the girls were startled when they heard it, especially because the wind on the mountain was a little bit cold. When it came to the horror part, the cold wind blew through it, and the goose bumps turned into pieces Pieces popped out, and those who were less courageous, their scalps would stand on end.

However, Lu Mingyuan felt very boring. He was born with a lack of nerves. It can be said that there is basically no such thing as imagination. He probably won't be able to understand how scary a horror story is in his whole life.After not hearing it for half an hour, Ye Cheng, who was leaning on the side, dozed off.

He leaned obliquely on Ye Cheng's shoulder, and the tip of his nose seemed to be able to feel Ye Cheng's breath, which gently brushed against the surface of his skin, and the air carried his unique sweet fragrance.

The orange-red fire kept shaking, and there were crackling sounds from time to time. The noisy voices of the group of guys gradually moved away from him. Lu Mingyuan seemed to have arrived at another place unknowingly. There was also Ye Cheng there. Ye Cheng was very different, he made his heart beat fast.

"Hey, Lu Mingyuan." Lu Mingyuan heard Ye Cheng calling him, his face was so close to him, Lu Mingyuan seemed to hide a wild beast in his heart, clamoring for him to come closer, to get closer.He struggled for a while before giving up, because it was an irresistible desire from the deepest part of his heart. He stretched out his arms to wrap around Ye Cheng's neck, and pressed his body and lips together...

Ye Cheng's lips are so soft!Such softness made him unable to help but think how could such a beautiful thing happen, he must be dreaming, right?Yes, he must be dreaming, otherwise why are there only the two of them here, aren't those people still telling ghost stories?Yes, he was dreaming.

After he figured it out, Lu Mingyuan let go even more. Although he was still a little shy, it was indeed a comfortable thing. Following his body's instincts, he gently swayed his waist, making his body weird. , leaning against Ye Cheng's lower abdomen and rubbing against it.

"Hmph..." Lu Mingyuan felt very hot, but also very comfortable. Will Ye Cheng feel the same as him?As soon as this idea popped up, he couldn't help but want to confirm it. He lifted Ye Cheng's clothes and touched his belly...