When the math mock exam papers were handed out, I actually went from being at the bottom of the class to being in the top ten.
The teacher didn’t believe it, my classmates didn’t believe it, and I didn’t really believe it myself either.
Some people suspected me of cheating.
To be fair, the teacher decided to give me two more difficult questions and asked me to solve them on the spot.
Li Ye gave me a thumbs up, and He Xubei looked at me encouragingly. I looked at the question carefully and then picked up the chalk and quickly wrote out the steps to solve the problem.
When I walked down from the podium, no one spoke. The class was so quiet that I could hear my own heartbeat.
It was probably at that moment that the classmates realized that the Yi Ping'an they knew was changing, becoming quiet and serious. Skipping classes, fighting and poor academic performance were no longer my three major characteristics.
I think they were really surprised by the way I was.
After Song Jingyan was transferred to another class, I rarely saw her. Even if I ran into her somewhere, she would just pass by without even glancing at me. I heard that she had changed, too, and had become a stranger to me.
Song Jingyan hangs out with different people every day. Her beautiful face is covered with thick powder, her heavy eyes look like she is never awake, and she swears all the time, like a typical little gangster. Song Jingyan's grades plummeted, and she used to be the teacher's favorite, but now she is considered "hopeless" by the teacher.
There is no cure. This is what He Xubei once said to me. I can imagine how it feels to be described by this sentence. It's the feeling of being abandoned by the whole world.
I feel sorry for Song Jingyan, and I am worried that her downfall will eventually ruin her.
I recently felt that something was wrong with He Xubei. I found that he always looked at me during class, just like when I peeked at him. When he met my eyes, he immediately dodged. When he passed by me, he seemed to have something to say, but when I faced him, he walked away.
I suddenly felt that the world had become a little strange.
After lunch, I went to the school guard room to help the teacher get something. When I was about to leave, I heard someone talking to the guard: "Hello, is there a student named Li Ye here? He is a new transfer student this semester."
Hearing Li Ye's name, I was a little curious and couldn't help but turn to the window to take a look. It was a middle-aged man holding a bag and looking like a businessman. I remembered that Li Ye said his father was a businessman. Could it be that the man who came to see Li Ye was his father?
I put down what I was holding and walked over: "Hello, who are you? What can I do for you, Li Ye?"
The middle-aged man looked at me and said, "Oh, hello, I'm a friend of Li Ye's father. Today is his birthday and I want to meet him."
It turns out that today is Li Ye’s birthday, but I’ve never heard him mention it, so I said, “Then I’ll go call him out now. Please wait a moment.”
The middle-aged man quickly held me back and said, "No, no, I have something else to do." Then he took out a gift box from his bag. It looked like the latest model of mobile phone. "Little girl, you are Li Ye's classmate, right? This is a gift that Li Ye's father bought for him. He is out of town and can't come back. Can you help me pass it to him?"
The middle-aged man put the gift box in my hand and left in a hurry.
I remember Li Ye said that he and his father often quarreled and their relationship was not good. But now it seems that it is not the case. At least his father still remembers his birthday. After sending the teacher's things to the office, I looked for Li Ye everywhere.
I thought Li Ye was still eating in the school cafeteria, but I looked around and didn't see him. I went back to the classroom and still didn't see him. Finally, I asked the teacher, and he told me that Li Ye had asked for leave this afternoon.
Thinking about how long I have known Li Ye, and how he has helped me a lot since my father passed away, but I have never said thank you to him, I bought a cake and decided to give him an unforgettable birthday.
Although Li Ye's home is not far from mine, I have never been there, so I had to look for him with the detailed address given by my teacher. Unexpectedly, I saw Li Ye before I even left Xingfu Community.
There is a pavilion in the community garden. It is the place where Li Ye once snatched my book. Now he is sitting there alone, holding something in his hand and looking at it in a daze.
I have never seen Li Ye like this, and I don’t know whether I should go over to him.
"Ping An? What are you doing here?" Li Ye just came back to his senses and saw me. He was a little curious and asked me, "Yi Ping An , why are you holding the cake? Is someone having a birthday?"
I walked over and sat down, gave him the gift I prepared and the gift his father sent, and jokingly said, "Yeah, there's a fool's birthday!"
I successfully saw the astonishment in Li Ye's eyes turn into surprise. He smiled and said, "How did you know that today is my birthday? I haven't told anyone about it."
I told him that his father asked someone to deliver gifts to the school and happened to meet me.
"So this is what he bought for me?" Li Ye's face suddenly changed after hearing this. He took the phone box and threw it on the stone table. "Who wants something he gave me!"
Li Ye seemed angry. But I didn't know why he was angry. He was fine just now, but suddenly his attitude changed .
"Li Ye, what's wrong with you?" I squatted down and looked at him and asked.
Li Ye looked at the phone box with disdain and said, "Ping An, I've told you before that my relationship with my father is not good, right?" I nodded. He did say that when he was still "Dark Night Raccoon".
Li Ye told me that since his mother died of illness when he was seven years old, his father's temperament changed drastically. He no longer loved Li Ye as much as before and was busy with business every day. Li Ye was a boy and it was inevitable that he would be naughty and make mistakes, and his father's way of disciplining him was to beat him.
When Li Ye was a child, he could only cry. Later, when he grew up, he stopped crying and learned to resist. He quarreled with his father and ran away from home after the quarrel.
I remember the first time he played a prank on me, he said he had had an argument with his family and was in a bad mood.
"My dad's business has been doing better and better over the years, but he cared less and less about me. He has never given me anything except money. In order to get his attention, I skipped school, fought, and made trouble everywhere. I became a bad student in the eyes of the teachers, and my classmates were afraid of me. Later, my dad transferred me to another school." Li Ye paused and continued, "But it didn't matter where he transferred me to. I still didn't change my bad habits. I deliberately went to bars and Internet cafes to hang out with others. He couldn't do anything with me and could only beat me."
Li Ye fell silent as he spoke, and I didn't say anything either. I felt a little sorry for him.