far and near

The class placement sheets are posted on the school bulletin board, and there are usually a few words after the note on the conspicuous and top-ranked list: Baizhou Municipal Primary School.Only Class No.9 in the first grade (1) of junior high school is special. It says "Student's name: Yu Ren (Yuzhuang Primary School, Dagang Township, Songyang County, Baizhou City)".At first glance, this is a country boy with good academic performance.

Yu Ren signed up by himself. In the clinic of Yu Xiaomin Hospital, there was a dying woman with a baby with an umbilical cord around her neck. Before she was called away, she lost another 100 yuan to Yu Ren. Come back, see what you need, don’t worry about money.”

Holding all kinds of documents and proofs, Yu Ren came to line up outside the classroom of Class 9. The lonely child in a beige dress stood out in the line that was basically led by parents.She lowered her head to avoid the curious eyes from time to time, but her hand was touched. Yu Ren raised his head and saw a girl who was slightly taller than himself, with short hair and sweet eyebrows. She was showing a cautious and aggrieved expression, " Are you Yu Ren? You don't remember me?"

Yu Ren thought for a while, and suddenly remembered that this was Bai Maosheng, who was in the next class when she was in primary school in the city.

At that time, all the children in the grade knew Bai Maosheng, she was a famous crying ghost.Maybe because of her surname Bai, she likes to wear a white coat, and she is called to the office by the teacher to make up homework all day long because she can't finish her homework. She wipes her tears with the back of her hand while crying until her nose is red, and she feels wronged when she pinches her pencil for fear that she won't be able to catch it. It looks like it's about to fall.Or he was punished to stand for being late, accompanied by the sound of reading in the classroom, Bai Maosheng leaned against the wall with a portrait of Einstein on his head, pear blossoms and rain.Even for no reason, she squatted and cried alone at the foot of the playground fence.His face was white and his clothes were white, and when he cried, his eyes and nose were extraordinarily bright red.

Once, Yu Ren was curious and asked her, "Why do you keep crying? You can start your homework earlier next time, so don't be late."

Bai Maosheng twitched his nose and stretched out his arm with a few red marks, "After school in the afternoon, I will go to the regiment to practice more. Practice——If I can't train my waist well, the master will beat me."

From then on, Yu Rencai really remembered the name of the crying ghost in the next class, because the crying ghost was really different from other students, and his words always sounded like words in TV dramas, "I was born in the year of Mao, that is, the year of the rabbit. Yes, that’s why I’m called Maosheng. I’m a few months older than you, and although they were all born in [-], I was born in the twelfth lunar month of the year of the rabbit, and my zodiac sign is different from yours who belong to the dragon.”

Yin Hu Mao Rabbit Chen Long Si Snake, Yu Ren only learned this after checking his grandma's Huang Li.At that time, she looked at the little rabbit curled up in the almanac, and the more she looked at it, the more she felt like the crying ghost.

"Are you that Bai Maosheng who studied opera?" Yu Ren's good memory obviously made the other party very happy, Bai Maosheng nodded and smiled with a deep single dimple on his left cheek.She raised her eyebrows and raised her eyes, swept her watery eyes left and right, and asked softly, "Are you alone?"

Yu Ren nodded, and she suddenly felt that compared to herself, Bai Maosheng was a little more mature and youthful.Teenagers are always "familiar" than children, so Bai Maosheng and Yu Ren lined up side by side, and couldn't restrain his joy, "Many of our younger ones have come to cultivate talents."

The word "we" made Yu Ren, who was alone in the queue, warm up inexplicably. When she was studying in primary school, she was transferred to another school, so she didn't speak rusticly, and she didn't like to talk, so she didn't have a good time.But Bai Maosheng said "we", and naturally included her in the ranks of acquaintances.

When the two delicate girls went to sign up in front of the head teacher, Teacher Zhang, the old head teacher who was over [-] years old and had seen countless people was also taken aback, "Yo." She was holding a list of students that can only be seen inside, who is Zhengqu, who is the one who slipped through the back door, and who spent the money can see clearly, she first looked at Bai Maosheng, "You are the little girl who studies opera, right?" Then he asked, "Which teacher did you learn from in the Municipal Yue Opera Troupe? How long have you been studying? Will you be singing Dan or Sheng in the future?"

Bai Maosheng pinched the corner of his clothes nervously for a while, "I... I have been singing with Mr. Wang Liwang for five years." Maybe it's because of the years of opera learning, Bai Maosheng's pronunciation is particularly clear and pleasant to listen to.

"Is it Wang Li's apprentice, or Tongzi Gong?" Wang Li is a pillar of the city's Yue Opera Troupe and is well-known in Baizhou.Teacher Zhang finished the admission procedures for her with a smile, "In the future, we will have you, a professional, to participate in the theatrical performances of our class." She looked at the other girl with a smile, "Who are you?"

"Hi teacher, my name is Yu Ren." Originally, according to the junior high school that she took her father's surname, this "Ren" should have the second sound, which is the same as "人", so that "Yu Ren" and "Fool" have the same pronunciation.So Yu Ren deliberately pronounced his name the fourth time.

"Oh..." Teacher Zhang glanced at the form, and wrote a note on the back, "Daughter of Shuodong County Magistrate." Ren Songhong still greeted the school in person, and Teacher Zhang made a note after learning about it.She nodded kindly, "Parents, please be busy. Remember to bring an extra plastic bag to store your books when you go to school next Monday. We have a lot of information on educating talents."

After seeing off the two polite children, Teacher Zhang was a little stunned for a moment, and then a thought flashed in his mind, "These two children can't arrange to sit at the same table with boys, they will do something bad."

Yu Ren said goodbye to Bai Maosheng at the school gate, "I still have to go to Xinhua Bookstore to buy materials, see you next week."

Aggrieved expression appeared on Bai Maosheng's face again, "I...I'm fine now." Recently, Teacher Wang Li was busy leading the team to perform in other places, and it was easy for her to be free, but she didn't want to go home early Was nagged by mother.

Yu Ren hesitated for a while and said "Okay".When it comes to buying materials, most of the huge sum of 100 yuan given by my mother will be spent on comics, magazines and novels. I read the old "Red and Black" with gusto.Sitting next to her under the bookshelf, Bai Maosheng also took out this book and turned a few pages, probably feeling bored, and finally she switched to "Alice in Wonderland" and read it fascinated.

Later, when checking out, Yu Ren didn't buy the comics he liked, so he took a set of novels "War and Peace", and proudly dropped 87 yuan.The remaining 13 yuan is in my hand because Bai Maosheng reminded me, "Aren't you going to buy teaching aids?"

Yu Ren frightened and added some pocket money to buy a set of "500 Mathematical Logical Thinking Training Questions for the First Grade of Junior High School" and an English dictionary, and hoped that his mother would not find himself "spending money" on novels.Regarding Yu Ren's extracurricular books, her grandparents didn't ask much about it, but Yu Xiaomin kept an eye on it, because in her eyes, it was considered "playing with things and losing one's ambition" in her eyes.

"What about you?" Yu Ren saw that Bai Maosheng was empty-handed.The girl who was studying put one hand behind her waist, covered her face with the other hand, shook her head slightly, raised one foot, and sang an opera with shame like a scholar in the play, "I am ashamed in my pocket."

The cash-strapped Bai Maosheng and Yu Ren walked out of the bookstore to the snack street, took out five yuan change and bought two bowls of crepe wontons, and chatted with Yu Ren, "What do you think that novel is about?" ?”

While swallowing the hot wonton, Yu Ren told her the general experience of Julien. She read this book piecemeal. Every time she went to Xinhua Bookstore, she picked it up and read it last time. It was rare that she hadn’t forgotten the previous plot. .

After listening for a long time, Bai Maosheng pretended to be old-fashioned, "This is the French "Love Detective"." She explained the play to Yu Ren, "After high school, Wang Kui married a rich and powerful lady, and divorced his first wife. sent his wife to the Sea God Temple to cry and then hanged himself to death, and the ghosts and gods came forward to arrest Wang Kui after being disturbed."

"That's different." Yu Ren picked up the bowl to drink, and then wiped the sweat from the bridge of his nose, "Julian's story has many twists and turns. He was denounced by his first lover, Mrs. Renard, and he became angry and beat his ex-lover to death. Sentenced to death."

"Aren't all men who do evil are punished? What's the difference?" Bai Maosheng ate gracefully, Yu Ren's bowl was bottomed out, and she still had half of it left, and the orchid finger of her right hand holding the plastic spoon was still up.

"Mrs. Leiner still knows how to report, and Wang Kui's wife knows how to cry and seek death. Anyway, it's different." Yu Ren touched the change while talking, and was held down by Bai Maosheng. Meet again, we will grow up in the future, this time I invite you."

After returning home, he read half of "War and Peace" with trepidation. From the first Monday in September, Yu Ren started his two-point and one-line life at school and home.It's not like there are ready-made hot meals prepared by grandparents in the countryside. She doesn't go home at noon but eats in the school cafeteria.Bai Maosheng was inseparable from her, and the two beautiful children were arranged by Teacher Zhang at the same table in the fifth row.Moreover, by coincidence, girls were sitting in the front, back, left, and right sides. For this reason, it can be seen that Mr. Zhang, who took precautions and paid attention to the details, spent a lot of time arranging the seats.

Yu Ren doesn't talk much, and seems to have a quiet personality. He is immersed in the world of novels every day except for class.She doesn't pay attention to who she makes friends with, who she goesssips about classmates in private, if it is not good-looking and a good friend of Bai Maosheng, she is almost transparent in class.

Although Bai Maosheng cried less than when he was in elementary school, it was still more than other children.She cried when the math problems in the unit test were too difficult, and she still burst into tears when she thought of the encounter between Lu You and Tang Wan in the play during lunch.He is born with a good face, and his personality is soft and likable.Bai Maosheng soon became a minor celebrity in the school.

This day, after eating in the canteen at noon, the two went to sit down on the steps outside the rostrum of the playground. As soon as Yu Ren opened the book, a pink envelope slipped out, writing "Bai Mao Sheng received".She pressed Bai Maosheng expressionlessly, "Which sister or brother is it?"

Yu Ren continued to read classics, while Bai Maosheng read all kinds of love letters and similar love letters. Many girls wrote sincere invitations: "I hope to be friends with you."

When Bai Maosheng read this kind of letter, he treasured it and hid it, and then sighed, "But what if we are friends? We will inevitably be separated." Yu Ren, who was already familiar with her, took a famous book and patted her on the head, "Don't learn opera. Li, speak well."

If it was a letter from a boy in the same class, she would show the letter to Yu Ren when she praised Bai Maosheng to the sky and said "association".

Yu Ren stared at the handwriting, "This is written by Zuo Heming, not the letter sent by me." Zuo Heming is recognized as a talented person in Class 9. He sits upright every time in class, answers positively and responds quickly, and is praised by the teacher.

Bai Maosheng tore the boy's letter into shreds and threw it away, muttering, "Hmph, all men are made of mud."

"Don't make mud and water," Yu Ren laughed, "I won't show you the math monthly exam this afternoon. How are you preparing?"

Bai Maosheng's eyebrows were worried again, with a look of unlucky luck, Yu Ren frowned, "Then... let's look at the multiple choice questions..." Seeing Bai Maosheng's sorrow turned to joy, she scratched her ear and turned her head to look elsewhere, "It's really made of water .”