three feet away

The place where the class is promised is a large-scale training class. The classroom is located in the temporarily abandoned teaching building of the old school, mainly for extracurricular tutoring and homework guidance for middle and high school students.

There are two courses promised to be tutored, English and Biology. Before coming here, she never mentioned the subjects she is good at to the person in charge. She only heard that the person in charge said that she had already inquired from Zhou Qingming, so she arranged the courses and class hours in advance. .

Compared with the tutoring time of other teachers, the promised training courses are designed very regularly. Basically, there are four classes a day, two in the morning and two in the afternoon.

At first, Xu Nuo didn't think there was anything wrong with it. She didn't feel a little uncomfortable until she knew that the classroom was arranged on the top floor because the students she was tutoring were all sophomores with a slightly more mature behavior than other lower grades. stand up.

When she really walked into the stairwell again with Zhou Qingming's company, she suddenly walked so heavily that she could barely lift off the ground.

Looking down at the roster and teaching materials rolled up in his hand, Xu Nuo took a deep breath, looked up at the stairs ahead, with a gloomy expression.Unexpectedly, one day, she would change her role and follow the path she walked with her previous posture.

It was too coincidental that the classroom where the class was held happened to be the classroom at the end of the corridor on the fourth floor. The doorplate of the second and fifth grades at the door of the classroom was covered with dust. Inside, a girl with mid-length hair and a gray down jacket was sweeping the fallen camphor leaves with her back bent.Hearing the movement behind him, he looked back and saw Xu Nuo and Zhou Qingming, he was taken aback for a moment, then greeted them with a smile:

"You are here."

"Isn't the classroom cleaned? Didn't the workers clean it yesterday?" Zhou Qingming stepped forward, trying to take the broom from the girl.

The girl raised her hand to avoid it, with a natural and generous expression: "It was cleared after cleaning yesterday, but it was windy last night. When I came up, I saw leaves falling all over the ground. Anyway, it's not class time yet, and everyone didn't come. I It’s also boring, just scan it.”

Xu Nuo stood behind the two of them close to the balcony railing, staring indifferently at the camphor tree in front of him that was blown by the cold wind with only a few sparse leaves left, feeling pain in his heart.

"You wait outside and come in. I'll go downstairs to see if the students and teachers from other classes have arrived." Zhou Qingming stood with her for a while, and then went downstairs. It is said that this training unit was opened by her father's friend. She became a small person in charge in the middle, and her job was to count the students and teachers.

Xu Nuo nodded to her sideways, and let her tidy up his untied collar before going out, saying hello.

After Zhou Qingming left, she walked deeper into the corridor and closer to the classroom door, standing on the edge, staring at the locked dormitory through the withered branches and leaves of the inner playground, with mixed feelings in her heart.

After cleaning all the dead leaves under her feet, the girl put the broom and garbage shovel by her feet, walked to the corner of the balcony, stood about two meters away from Xu Nuo, looked in the direction she was looking at, and then looked away, Looking sideways at Xu Nuo's profile, he hesitated for a moment before calling her: "Teacher Xu?"

The tentative voice of unfamiliar nouns passed by, like a gust of wind, without leaving a trace in Xu Nuo's brain.She stood motionless in front of the railing, her hands believed to be clenched tightly against the rusted and cold iron railing, her eyes were far-reaching but dull.

"Promise?"

The girl called again and changed her title.Xu Nuo turned her head to the side, and some empty eyes fell on her reddish face blown by the cold wind. After realizing that she had just wandered, she coughed softly, and nodded politely to her: "Do you know me?"

"I know." The girl nodded, with a natural and generous smile on her face. Seeing Xu Nuo's blank expression, she simply turned around, leaned slightly against the railing, and pointed to a place far behind the inner playground: "When I met you, you were a sophomore in high school, I third grade."

Xu Nuo was still puzzled, she sized up the girl carefully, without any memory, so she could only continue to politely nod and smile.

"It's normal if you don't remember me. You were too high and dazzling in high school."

Xu Nuo frowned. It sounded like they had met before, and it wasn't just that she knew herself: "Are you...?"

"During your liner sanitation week, you and your friends happened to be assigned to the junior high school to clean."

"..." The girl didn't finish her sentence right away, Xu Nuo listened to her and tried to recall the original scene, but for her, those things were too long ago and too insignificant, what she could remember about that week The things about the hygiene week in the past are only the eye contact with Yan Ruyi in the small garden and the cold and delicious peach from her hand.

"You originally had a sports area in the high school, but due to hygiene, the base was temporarily transferred to the junior high school, so...you robbed our table tennis table..." At this point, the girl paused, turned her head to the inner playground again, Yang Started to smile brightly: "That was the first time I saw you, I remember you, you stood in the corner of the crowd, and complained in a very boring tone: It's so noisy."

"Haha, until now, I still remember your expression at that time. You were not in good spirits, and your expression was a little irritable, as if you had been insomnia for a long time and were in a bad mood."

Xu Nuo tried hard to recall what she said, but in the end, he could only vaguely recall the scene and the tense atmosphere at that time. Why was there so much noise because of a billiard table?She didn't understand then, and she doesn't understand now.

"Oh, I used to...be more..." After a pause, Xu Nuo pressed the corners of his lips in embarrassment, "...Compare..." How should I describe myself back then?Out of gregarious?withdrawn?Invincible?

Before Xu Nuo could speak, the girl had already said, "It's special, it's far away from everyone, and it seems like you can't get close." She glanced at Xu Nuo, and smiled at Xu Nuo with a playful expression:

"You don't seem to have targeted anyone deliberately, but you have an edge that doesn't allow anyone to get close. At that time, I thought there would be a fight that would alarm the principal, but I didn't expect you to complain casually, and the table was returned. I gave it to the junior high school. That person, in his eyes and in his heart, is all about you. So you said a word that is irrelevant and flimsy, and he withdrew his hand without looking back, and he didn’t think it was wrong at all. But you definitely don’t remember, I walked up to you and said thank you to you and him."

that person?Hearing this, Xu Nuo finally found a little point from the dialogue.She shook her head with a smile, and said, "He is studying combined undergraduate and master studies at the University of Science and Technology, please come on."

The girl's expression was stagnant, and then she changed her generous appearance just now, and lowered her head embarrassedly: "Thank you, it was just an unrequited love that ended before it started, but I was a little surprised to see you, and suddenly remembered something from the past. "

Xu Nuo waved her hands, true and false, affectionate and ruthless, she is not qualified to judge, so she just picked up the textbooks on the balcony, turned and walked to the classroom.

"Promise."

"What's the matter?" Xu Nuo turned around.

"You and Zhou Qingming, you..."

If such a straightforward question was put in the past, Xu Nuo would probably be disgusted, but now, with her back to the girl, she stood silently for two seconds, and walked towards the classroom door again without saying anything.

Xu Nuo chose to ignore the girl's question, but she couldn't escape the sudden torture of her own soul from the depths of her heart. Could everything in the past really be blamed on other people?When everything happened, the girls were just freshmen in the third year of junior high school. Now they can see the relationship between themselves and Zhou Qingming at a glance and can directly ask questions, which can directly prove that the so-called handling at the beginning was nothing but the school's deliberate decision. In order to cover up this scandal, Yan Ruyi was quickly transferred from work. Those gossips, those who should have heard what should not be heard, none of them fell behind, and I was childishly immersed in the pain of being abandoned, which was infinitely magnified by myself. , but has been ignored, although Yan Ruyi stood on the three-foot podium, she looked mature, but she was just a little girl who was only two years older than herself...

If at the beginning, she had even made a strong statement to accept all punishments including transferring schools, wouldn't Yan Ruyi have to leave?But if... how can there be any if... the truth is, I just didn't bear anything for her, she just left...

Blinking, Xu Nuo looked up at the oath that had come off the corner of the blackboard, and took a deep breath. She never thought that the cram school would be held here. If she had known in advance, perhaps, she would have refused, because everything here For her, it is a reminder of the past that she cannot let go, the podium, the desk, and even the chalk on the table, everything reminds her that she once received all the love of one person, and then, will it lost...

A student walked by sideways, Xu Nuo lowered his head and leaned sideways when the corners of his clothes rubbed against each other, and glanced at the few scattered people in the classroom, not all the tutors had arrived yet.

Xu Nuo walked up to the podium, sat on the shabby-looking chair, put the textbook in his hand on the desk, tapped the writing with his fingertips, sat down with his legs crossed, and looked towards the door of the classroom. The doors and windows are closed tightly, and the dusty glass windows can no longer see the classroom clearly. Looking at the dark area from a distance, it looks like black doors leading to the abyss and hell. The table was once full of high school students. The books are gone, the sound of reading aloud and the sound of hip-hop fighting are gone, and even the camphor in front of me is no longer alive.Everything has changed... Xu Nuo shook her head, she remembered that it was Zhao Xiao's class, he used to like Yan Ruyi, it was about as deep as her own liking, but he was mature enough to know what it means to advance and retreat, not like herself, like Yan Ruyi. The blindfolded rhinoceros, the rampant love, hurt so many people.

When she stood behind the podium as a teacher for the first time, Xu Nuo faced a dozen high school sophomores who were about her own age in the classroom. How to speak.

Zhou Qingming came in from the back door of the classroom, sat in the empty seat in the last row, looked at her with eyes full of admiration, and made no effort to hide the smug smile on his face.

Xu Nuo took a deep breath, looked instinctively from the right to the left of the classroom, silently counted the number of people in the seats, then lowered his head, looked at the string of names on the list on the podium, and followed the grid with his fingers Slowly going down, when she moved to the last grid, she suddenly stopped unconsciously, and then, she couldn't help but her heart trembled slightly.

She still remembers the scene when Yan Ruyi called her name for the first time. Her slender fingers also slowly moved down the class roster, and finally stopped on her name, and then called out without any pause. : promise.

She suddenly remembered that what she did before she stepped onto the three-foot podium was exactly the same as what she did back then.She sat on the chair that Yan Ruyi used to sit in, facing the outside of the classroom with her favorite posture, and then looked down at the names one by one like her, and looked at the left from the right side of the classroom like her, although The number of students sitting here is less than one-third of what it was back then... But everything is her habit, she never realized that she engraved Yan Ruyi's every move in her heart, no need to practice, just raise her hand, One shot, it's her...

What was taught in that class later, Xu promised to walk out of the classroom, but she had already forgotten. When she went downstairs, Zhou Qingming excitedly whispered in her ear, but she didn't hear a word of it.

On the way back to the apartment, the girl had been talking to Zhou Qingming before, and she followed the two of them, watching Zhou Qingming so happy that she wanted to talk to that girl with both hands and feet, and would praise herself from time to time, as excited as if Every compliment is for her own appearance without making a sound.My mind is in a mess, my emotions are like a ball of wool wrapped up in a cat, and I can't tell which one is more sad.

The three of them walked to the front of the teacher's dormitory two in front and one behind. Suddenly someone shouted at them from 50 meters away. Former history teacher, Yan Ruyi's alumni.She lowered her head slightly, and at that moment, she subconsciously wanted to escape, and hid far away from Zhou Qingming.

"Go, Xia Xia, I'm calling you."

"Then I'll go, let's go out to eat skewers when I have time." The girl waved her hand at the two of them, and quickly ran towards the teacher.

"Let's go back, get tired, go up and have a rest, drink some water to protect your throat, your speech is great." After Xia Xia ran away, Zhou Qingming turned around and walked towards the corridor naturally holding Xu Nuo's hand .

Xu Nuo obediently followed her all the way forward, when the two were about to walk into the doorway, she suddenly looked back like a ghost, her eyes collided with the teacher who was looking towards her in the air, the distance was far away, Xu Nuo looked I don't know the exact expression on her face, but I don't know why, suddenly there is a sense of depression in my heart that sinks into deeper deep water...