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The days passed quietly with the classroom bell ringing every day. It was not until one day when she came back from the playground and promised to go upstairs that the camphor tree leaves outside the classroom turned emerald green again. She was surprised that it was already the end of April.

The feeling of the sun shining on the face is similar to that of last summer, but it is always less warm.

Old Wang came from the office and saw Xu Nuo standing in the corridor in a daze, so he said to her from a distance: "Xu Nuo, when you choose your seat next time, you are not allowed to lean back."

Xu Nuo looked back at Lao Wang and returned to school after the year. I don’t know if she didn’t pay attention before or what. One day she met Lao Wang face to face in the playground, and she suddenly felt much older than when she just joined this class two years ago. When he laughed, the lines at the corners of his eyes were so deep that they could kill mosquitoes.

"Why?" Xu Nuo asked inexplicably.

The class is adjusted according to the ranking of each comprehensive examination. All the students will be locked out of the classroom by Lao Wang. The names on the roster are arranged according to the score. Want to go to the seat.

Xu Nuo originally had an absolute advantage in choosing the best seat for class, but every time, she walked straight back to her original seat without hesitation.In the beginning, it was because of Zhang Qiming and Zhu Yuan, and because students who were a little motivated and eager to learn would not lean towards the back of the classroom, so no one would choose the seat next to her. Later, it was because Zhang Qiming became the first The two dark horses followed closely behind, and the others had no chance to choose.

Regarding the seat issue, Lao Wang has always been worried about it. Although a teacher should treat students equally, regardless of good or bad, Xu Nuo and Zhang Qiming are his current key cultivation targets, and they will be promoted to third grade soon. I don't want to let them "live" among the students who have given up on themselves in the back row of the classroom.As for the seats of these two people, the one promised and Zhang Qiming's were adjusted, so there is no need to worry about it, he will habitually change with the promise.

Old Wang stepped quickly, and when Xu Nuo expressed doubts, he had already walked to Xu Nuo, raised his thick beer bottle low glasses, and said melancholy:

"As soon as the midterm is over, this semester is almost over. Time flies, and the third year of high school is coming soon. I promise, the teacher has unlimited hopes for you. Although you have great self-control, the teacher still can't let the environment around you It will have a little impact on you, and you can sit directly in the middle of the second row later. It is not too close to the podium and has a good view. After the summer vacation, I will move to the new school, and I will look at the new suitable seat."

Xu Nuo listened to Lao Wang's words in silence, and did not express her opinion immediately. She was unwilling to occupy other people's positions, even if it was the right that Lao Wang gave her. Another reason is that the back row is near the back door of the classroom by the window, and she controls the glass window. She likes to push the window open a crack in her spare time, and look out of the window where there is vitality or autumn. The camphor tree is in a daze, and when it rains occasionally, she can still smell the freshest ozone mixed with the unique fragrance of camphor, which is fresh and light.

"There will be a parent-teacher meeting in a few days, and I will tell them why this seat is arranged in this way. Do you just let your father or mother sit in the last seat? Obviously you are the best, but you sit in the worst seat?" Lao Wang was a little anxious when he saw that the promise was not agreed.

Xu Nuo frowned, parents meeting?The last time a parent meeting was held, it seemed that she hadn't informed her parents.

But they will come after all. In the past, she didn't like to study and was taciturn. If her parents didn't come, Lao Wang could just turn a blind eye and turn a blind eye. If they didn't come now, would Lao Wang still ignore her?

She still remembers the agreement she made with Xu's father, she promised to be admitted to a key university, and Xu's father could not force her to transfer.

"Okay." Xu Nuo agreed, and when Old Wang smiled with satisfaction, she turned and went back to the classroom.

Old Wang is becoming more and more incomprehensible to this taciturn student. She has an aura of indifference all over her body, which makes it easy for people to feel her melancholy, but she never wants to communicate with anyone more. He once The few young teachers who invited her to communicate with her failed to really open her heart because they had nothing to talk to with her. This made Lao Wang a little worried. For the one with the best grades, he must ensure her study efficiency, and he doesn't want his hopes to be shattered.

When choosing the seat, she promised that she did not break her promise. She really obeyed Lao Wang's wishes. After Lao Wang took the roster and read her name first, she walked through the crowd at the classroom door from the corner of the balcony to see who changed again. After taking the seat he wanted, there were no classmates who had been snatched from his favorite seat, so he went straight to the second row arranged by Lao Wang, hesitated for a moment, and chose the seat near the aisle.In the past, it was Xiao Jing and her roommates, that is, the seats of those students who wandered among the top ten in the class.

She heard someone sighing and complaining softly. She took someone else's seat. Perhaps, all the people in this seat will be changed because of her sudden change. No one likes her. She knows that she is not willing to please others. She didn't like it, but she agreed to Lao Wang, so she could only pretend that she didn't hear anything.

Zhang Qiming stood at the door of the classroom. Although he was surprised by the promised behavior, when the people around him began to complain and discuss in a low voice, he coughed impatiently to stop him, and then followed into the classroom when Lao Wang read his name , he stopped beside Xu Nuo, looked around, and finally sat down on the seat behind Xu Nuo.

Because of Zhang Qiming, no one who entered the classroom from behind dared to go to his side, until it was Xiao Jing's turn, she stood beside Zhang Qiming, hesitating for a moment.

Zhang Qiming thought she minded that he was sitting in her seat, and just about to explain with a smile, he saw her pointing to the seat next to Xu Nuo, and asked Xu Nuo in a low voice with red ears if she could sit there.

Xu Nuo didn't make any gestures, because it was her right. When she got up to let Xiao Jing in, Xu Nuo took half a step back without any trace, and she didn't make skin contact with Xiao Jing.

After coming back from school during Chinese New Year, Xu Nuo began to keep a distance from Xiao Jing intentionally or unintentionally. She would still explain patiently when Xiao Jing asked her questions, but unless necessary, she would never accept Xiao Jing’s invitation like before .

When she was seated, Xu Nuo heard Xiao Jing's suppressed long breath, she glanced sideways at her, but only saw her flushed side face and blinking eyelashes.

No one dared to sit next to Zhang Qiming, until Zhu Yuan was called in from the few people outside the classroom door, and swaggered to Zhang Qiming's side, and the ruffian kicked him with his head raised. The bench leg signaled him to let him in, but Lao Wang forcibly changed the seat before he settled down, and the promised tablemate was no longer Zhu Yuan, but Xiao Jing.

In the next few days, every teacher who entered the classroom for the first time after the transfer would look in the direction of Xu Nuo in amazement. For teachers who only value grades and enrollment rates in ordinary high schools, Xu Nuo is now like a star , she was so dazzling that when she came from the back row of the classroom to the middle of the second row, she became even more dazzling.And the classroom interaction seems to have become a lot more because of this.

Xu Nuo didn't like this, but still tried his best to cooperate with the teachers of every subject, except Yan Ruyi.

In the afternoon when Yan Ruyi came to the classroom for the first time after changing positions, Xu Nuo was staring at the swaying camphor tree outside the window in a daze.

The figure of Yan Ru with a few test papers rolled up in one hand came into her eyes, she saw her, but she didn't respond as if she hadn't seen her.

After Zhu Yuan yelled to stand up, Yan Ruyi habitually glanced slowly from the far right to the far left. When she saw Xu Nuo, her eyes obviously froze, and then she slid away without a trace.

In that class, Yan Ruyi used it to comment on the test papers. Xu Nuo couldn't remember how many times Xiao Jing who was sitting next to her and Zhang Qiming who was behind her were called up to answer questions, but she herself was still the one who was completely ignored.She lowered her head, not feeling sad because of Yan Ruyi's performance. In the past six months, she had long been used to this kind of ignorance, but she still couldn't stop feeling sad and heartbroken.She tried her best to stay here, for the sake of the eloquent woman on the three-foot podium, but that person often put on a teacher's aloof look, and insisted on separating her and her from the podium that originally belonged to the classroom. The gap between the seats was widened. She had already apologized and said that she would not bother her anymore, but Yan Ruyi failed to treat her like an ordinary student.

With 5 minutes to go, Yan Ruyi finished the last question and sat behind the podium to rest.

It was always difficult to be quiet in the classroom, and it was noisy. She didn't stop it, but just sat quietly on the podium, thinking about something.

Xu Nuo propped her face with her left hand, tried to avoid Xiao Jing's peripheral vision, pretended to look around, and glanced in Yan Ruyi's direction. She originally planned to just glance at her, Yan Ruyi's class, but now she has She seldom raised her head to listen to her. Most of the time, she just stared at the textbook, listening to what Yan Ruyi said word by word, and then wrote down word by word.She didn't dare to look at her too much, she was afraid that Xiao Jing would ask her again if she liked Yan Ruyi, and she was even more afraid that she would not be able to control her lingering eyes, which would make it difficult for Yan Ruyi.

It's just that she didn't expect that this pretended unintentional glance met Yan Ruyi just when she turned her eyes directly to the podium.

Yan Ruyi was looking at her with a complex look that she couldn't understand. When Xu Nuo looked over, she quickly turned her head and looked in another direction as if nothing had happened, but Xu Nuo's heart could not be calm for a long time, she lowered her head , Trying to recall the eyes that Yan Ruyi had just looked at her, there seemed to be pity in it that she was used to using for herself, but it was not just pity, the feeling that those eyes gave her was the same as that of Yan Ruyi who sat in the final exam last time. It was very similar to the feeling left when I looked at myself when the invigilator was behind me.

After the get out of class bell rang, Yan Ruyi quickly walked off the podium, and found that she was coming straight towards him, Xu Nuo suddenly squeezed the signature pen tightly in his hand nervously.

Yan Ruyi really stopped beside her, she bent over, put her hands on the promise table, her belly almost touched the edge of the promise table: "Xiao Jing."

When Yan Ruyi called out Xiao Jing's name, Xu Nuo breathed a sigh of relief, her body relaxed, but her heart was instantly filled with disappointment, she thought too much, she thought Yan Ruyi was here to find her, but she forgot that Xiao Jing was Her class rep.

"I took a set of college entrance examination questions from the third grade group and printed a few copies. You can take it and send it to the top five students in the class in biology to do it. Put it away and hand it to me before Friday, is that okay?"

The corner of Yan Ruyi's small suit jacket gently rubbed against the back of Xu Nuo's hand as she bent down, and she moved her finger, but did not retract it.

"Okay." Xiao Jing took the test paper and nodded in agreement.

Yan Ruyi stood up straight and didn't walk away immediately, Xu Nuo saw her stomping her feet lightly.

Then she tapped Xu Xu's desk lightly with her knuckles, and said in a very ordinary voice: "Come on."

Xu Nuo suddenly raised his head to see if those two words were meant for him, but Yan Ruyi had already walked out of the classroom without looking back, leaving only a faint fragrance wafting in the air.

She lowered her head and looked at the chalk dust that Yan Ruyi left on her desk with her hands just now, feeling sad for no reason.Regardless of whether Yan Ruyi's encouragement is for her or not, she is willing to regard it as unique, Yan Ruyi's encouragement to herself, even if it is just her self-deception.