smoky look

It was six past five in the morning.

Xiao Yao dragged a bulky suitcase on the crowded sidewalk.

It's time for breakfast, and the shouts of street vendors are louder than each other---

"You Tiao Tang Cake Hu Spicy Soup --- Freshly Baked Steamed Buns ---"

"Boiled eggs, quail eggs, two yuan and fifty cents for an egg, taste very good---"

"Bean porridge sprinkled with soup---"

Suddenly, Xiao Yao's head, which was concentrating on looking ahead, seemed to be pulled by an invisible rope, and twisted at a slow but firm speed towards a small cart passing by her right.Just now, the vaguely scented scent suddenly became stronger, and she couldn't help but sniffed hard.

It is mutton soup.

She stared intently at the dilapidated trolley as it went further and further away, her gaze seemed to penetrate the cotton cloth covering the pot and the iron lid, as if she could see the milky white hanging soup inside with the trolley swaying step by step, until The car turned and disappeared around the corner.

Xiao Yao then withdrew his gaze, and his stomach let out a wail at the right time.She sighed, dragged the box resignedly and continued to move forward.

Today is the first day of high school registration, and the number of people will be counted at 06:30.Last night, my parents reminded me not to oversleep, but I still couldn't make up for Xiao Yao's biological clock, which went from nine to zero during the summer vacation. When she sat up in a daze, it was almost six o'clock.

So Xiao Yao, relying on his speed of getting up late for many years, just went downstairs before six o'clock, dragging the box and rushing to her future high school, Xiang Wan High School, which she stepped on a few days ago.

She said it was a good step a few days ago, but in fact, she had already been here three years ago.At that time, she was still an ignorant child, an ordinary student in an ordinary elementary school in an ordinary city in this vast province of S, but she was obsessed with going to Xiangwan junior high school, but she failed to do so due to various reasons.She didn't cry or make trouble, but she has restrained her temper since then. She hardly participated in a few school activities in the three years of junior high school, and the interest classes were also stopped. Finally, in the entrance examination three years later, she won the first place in the city. His grades were admitted to this province-famous high school located in S City, the capital of S Province.

Xiao Yao stopped and stood on the street filled with the aroma of breakfast, watching Xiangwan High School standing silently in the morning light, and on the bridge between the buildings, figures with their backs behind their backs kept coming and going, dreaming about thousands of years with her. Hundreds of scenes gradually overlap together.

She withdrew her gaze, walked forward slowly, merged into the crowd of people rushing towards the school gate, and said silently in her heart: Song Xiao, did you see, I'm here to find you.

"Ouch!"

A slightly exaggerated shout sounded beside him, Xiao Yao turned his head, and found that he was lost in thought for a while, and the suitcase ran over a person's foot.I have to say that this suitcase is really heavy, weighing several dozen kilograms, and she almost couldn't carry it downstairs in the morning.Xiao Yao was about to ask him how he was, when he saw this man raised his head and said to her with a mournful face: "Dude, walk carefully, if there are too many old ladies bumping into the gate, wouldn't it be bad?"

dude?When Xiao Yao heard it, he was happy.Although I cut my hair short for the boarding, my family objected that I looked like a tomboy, and this was the first one to admit his mistake so blatantly.So she knelt down and asked, "Sister, are your feet okay? Do you want to go to the infirmary?"

"Yes, you can see that it's all swollen."

Chu Wanghuan had just finished speaking when he suddenly felt something was wrong.He smacked and raised his head, before he could retract his inexplicable expression, he saw Xiao Yao looking at him with a smile.He suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing, and immediately changed his words: "Sister, I'm sorry, I'm being rude." For a while, his feet didn't hurt anymore, everything was fine, and he stood up and was about to slip away.

Xiao Yao held him down: "Don't go to the infirmary yet, what should I do if I have sequelae." After speaking, he raised Chu Wanghuan, asked where the infirmary was, and dragged him Just left, and after a while, there was no shadow, leaving only Chu Wanghuan's voice calling "Hey sister, slow down" staying in place, circling the beam for three seconds without stopping.

"Aren't you a student from City S?"

"Yes." Xiao Yao shrugged.

Chu Wanghuan's eyes were about to burst into stars: "I didn't see it, Xiao Yao, you are still a top student. You must know that City S almost took over all the eugenic resources in the province when he was in junior high school, especially Xiang Wan. The junior high school basically took all the places in the high school, and I heard from my mother that it would be extremely difficult for people from S city to get in!"

Xiao Yao looked at him amusedly: "Actually, I wanted to take the exam at the time, but the exam system was reformed that year, and non-local students in City S were not allowed to take the entrance exam for Xiangwan Junior High School, so I didn't come." After speaking, his eyes drooped. Going down, looking at the blue bricks on the road, he stopped talking.

"Oh, that's it." Chu Wanghuan froze.He didn't expect to touch Xiao Yao's sad matter, so he looked around anxiously, not knowing what to say.At this time, a large flag was raised in the crowd in front, and he quickly poked Xiao Yao.Xiao Yao raised his head and saw that it read: "Freshmen are welcome, please see the signboard", and there was a big sign beside it.Chu Wanghuan squeezed in recklessly, and after a while he came out and said, "The dormitory building is in front, and the teaching building is on the left. Let's put our luggage first." Xiao Yao agreed, dragging his suitcase with him Go to the dormitory building together.

Wangao's dormitory building is famously luxurious, and everyone who used it said it was good.Even though they were mentally prepared, when Xiao Yao and Chu Wanghuan stood in front of the dormitory in a daze, they still swallowed their saliva in unison, in an unusually tacit understanding and in an unusually hopeless manner.

Didn't I say, is this a dormitory building?This is a small mansion!What kind of trouble is this red brick and green tile going to be!Xiao Yao roared in her heart.Compared with this one, her junior high school dormitory building is even worse than a pigsty.Xiao Yao, who was immersed in shock, didn't realize that he had just classified himself as a large mammal, and Chu Wanghuan who was next to him murmured: "Grandma is a bear, my house is not so beautiful."

Xiao Yao burst out laughing after hearing "噗嗤", which woke Chu Wanghuan up. He scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "I heard from my mother that Wangao's dormitory building was built with the blood of the first Wangao principal. I said that I must provide students with a good resting environment, and I had already made preparations before I came here. I just didn’t expect that the dormitory building will still be like this, so youthful forever.”

Xiao Yao suppressed a smile, patted Chu Wanghuan on the shoulder, and walked straight to the girls' dormitory.Just when she was about to go in, the dormitory aunt standing at the door of the dormitory frowned: "Hey, this is the girls' dormitory, and the boys' dormitory is opposite." Xiao Yao clearly heard Chu Wanghuan's vengeful laughter from behind , she turned her head sullenly, and Chu Wanghuan immediately limped towards the boys' dormitory dragging the suitcase.

Xiao Yao helped his forehead helplessly, thinking that he must not let me out like this when entering the women's toilet.However, as a crow's mouth, Xiao Yao has no right to pray, but she doesn't seem to be aware of this.

The author has something to say:

In reality, Xiao Yao was held back by the junior high school she attended (junior high school integrated), and did not go to the school she had been dreaming of for three years.But Xiao Yao in the book is full of this regret.